Adekoye Sanni

• Enables transition to Agile by empowering teams to develop Agile mindset
• Trains Teams to enable teams to transition to Agile way of working and systems thinking
• Facilitates team and program events
• Communicates and collaborates with product and solution management, product owners and other stakeholders to guarantee alignment of strategy and execution
• Develops and implements continuous improvement strategies and best practices incrementally
• Facilitates quality relationships between team members and other teams
• Scrutinizes agility levels of ART and solution train and helping find improvements
• Facilitates efficiency and increases probability of success in each team’s iteration
• Facilitates PI planning and execution, manages team and program risks
• Establishes and actively manages all project and key stakeholder expectations and relationships
• Fosters constructive and proactive communication across IT Teams to ensure goals and priorities, key decisions, and status is clear to all
• Works with Product stakeholders to better facilitate iteration and release objectives, goals, success criteria, and associated measurements to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Helps to track stories, features and capabilities throughout development
• Recognize need for change, recommends improvements and assists with implementing best practice
• Provides feedback on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
• Understands budget and operating within its constraints
• Removes impediments, improve transparency by facilitating discussions, building safe and trusting environment
• Nurtures communities of practice as well as use of engineering and built-in quality practices
• Works with Product Owners, Product & Solution Management, and stakeholders for ensuring strategy and execution alignments
• Handles actions coming from issues of Agile teams: everyday impediments, larger problems, having attention of management members and organizing meetings with them to solve problems
• Tracks metrics such as burn down charts/burn up charts, velocity, and capacity to evaluate team and program health and bandwidth.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.

• Leads Agile Transformation process for organization
• Evaluates organization’s ability to change, build implementation roadmap to scale Agile, and then used agile methods to effectively transform organization and provides ongoing coaching to teams
• Supports and educates Scrum Masters and Product Owners, especially on refinement and maintaining healthy product backlog
• Leads to define project scopes, identifies potential crises, and devises contingency plan
• Supports project teams in multiple collaborative environments through each project phase while maintaining excellent working relationships with other teams and departments within organization
• Collaborates with multiple self-organized Scrum teams
• Provides timely status updates to Executive Leadership on current project status, risks and roadblocks while presenting possible solutions, at Portfolio level.
• Analyzed team performance and identified opportunities for additional training

• Implemented and ensured Scrum principles and practices, facilitated continuous improvement
• Monitored progress using various metrics such cumulative flow diagram (CFD), burndown and burnup charts
• Developed continuous improvement strategy
• Maintained strong relationships and demonstrated excellent teamwork to produce value
• Provided recommendations for improvements based on surveys and customers’ feedbacks to management and business process departments
• Removed impediments for teams and management

As a Product Owner

• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Represent customer to projects
• Own product vision and define features
• Decide release dates and content
• Prioritize product features according to market value
• Manage product backlog ensuring it is accurate, up to date, prioritized, and sorted by value
• Ensure team has shared understanding of backlog items
• Define acceptance criteria
• Provide due dates for releases
• Attend planning meetings, reviews, and retrospective
• Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• Allocated and approved team resource usage.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams.
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Facilitated and designed programs aimed at increasing effective communication throughout organization
• Trained and mentored new personnel hired to fulfill various roles, during tenure trained and mentored over 300 personnel.
• Coordinated project activities, resources, equipment, and documentation including functional requirements, non-functional requirements, impact analysis, process mapping and key decisions
• Researched and analyzed information and government regulations to draft and implement strategy
• Steered restructuring of organization to improve productivity through development of procedure standards that were tied to key performance indicators
• Supported senior principal consultants and teams to ensure that projects were performed in accordance with project scope and timelines
• Created and maintained process and documentation.
• Designed courses to meet company requirements and help develop new leaders within organizational structure
• Assisted leadership teams with building shared beliefs and attitudes across organizational structures
• Coached leaders in important skills underpinning current leadership and operational and tactical management goals.
• Directed and improved program operations by analyzing data and making proactive adjustments