Abiola Salau

Worked with 2 teams Tools used: Jira, Slack, Teams, Zoom, Fun retro boards, and confluence.

• Create project plans to fit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver with-in budget on desired outcomes, full accountability for project results
• Define project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the Customer, including project scope and objectives to ensure a cross-functional understanding amongst project members
• Perform project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; proactively identify potential issues and track project member progress against commitments
• Organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint demos, and release planning.
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects.
• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect, and adapt workshops for future PIs and Release Management meetings
• Attending weekly meetings to share the status of the project, discussing the impediments, delays, and dependencies on other teams. Brought in Agile best practices such as continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, JIRA tracking, product visioning, self-management, empowerment, and role training
• Collaborate closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Focused primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Placed substantial efforts on team member role training, time-boxing, and providing strong metrics for all players
• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defect/bugs.
• Worked with software development team applying scrum principle.

Worked with 2 teams

Tools used: Jira, Slack, Microsoft teams, Fun retro boards and confluence.

• Assisted to develop and deliver team and organization Scrum training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology with the team to improve communication within and between departments to provide transparency across departments and to obtain great business value with a short turnaround.
• Supported and educated the Product Owner in respect to refining and ordering the product backlog.
• Assisted team in clarifying and writing user stories.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies to promote transparency amongst the team as well as encouraged inspection of work to identify areas of improvement for each sprint.
• Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.
• Facilitating various Scrum events such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Removed team impediments consistently to allow the team to attain sprint goals and provide deliverables.
• Coached and empowered teams using scrum methodology to encourage them to be self-organizing and self-managing teams.
• Created templates for Sprint Review to maintain timebox for the team and clarify metrics/sprint goals for key stakeholders/product teams.
• Publicized the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to the product owners and stakeholders.

• Created in-house Customer360 application to provide a well-rounded view of customers’ information & classification this translated to saving the bank $1,000,000
• Coordinate with Business Analysts to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
• Developed an online, real-time application to effectively aggregate & track employee performance with respect to customer acquisition & inflows, this project resulted in customer acquisition increase by 125% as well as an increase in revenue by 150% from Financial Year 2013 to Financial Year 2014.
• Generated reports request using SQL