ADERONKE ADEKUNLEWRIGHT

Acted as Scrum Master for three cross-functional Agile teams supporting global digital products within the Integrated Delivery and Payments domains. Partnered closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Architects, QA, and stakeholders to deliver customer-facing initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability. Coached teams to higher levels of Agile maturity, improved delivery predictability, proactively managed dependencies and risks, and enabled consistent delivery of business value across multiple product roadmaps.

Key Contributions

• Coached three cross-functional Agile teams, cultivating innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance team dynamics and delivery effectiveness.
• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, ensuring productive and effective outcomes, resulting in teams consistently delivering 95% of sprint commitments with 30% less spillover work.
• Monitored and managed the TBI Delivery Market defect dashboard, partnering with engineering teams to prioritize and resolve critical and high defects within 24 hours, improving product quality and release readiness.
• Led PI Planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning, ensuring alignment with business priorities and strategic objectives.
• Led change management initiatives, guiding teams through process improvements and tool transitions, increasing delivery efficiency by 20%.
• Identified and managed cross-team dependencies early, reducing delivery delays by 15% and improving sprint predictability.
• Partnered with Product Managers and Engineering leadership to maintain healthy backlogs, remove impediments, and ensure work was prioritized based on business value.
• Monitored sprint metrics, team health, velocity, and delivery trends to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitated retrospective action plans that enhanced collaboration and delivery predictability across multiple sprints.

Planned and facilitated all scrum events such as the daily stand up, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective to ensure they were effective and productive.

• Provided guidance to development teams to ensure alignment with Scrum framework while promoting a collaborative and self-managing team environment leading on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Coached the Product Owner and development team in effective product backlog management, Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR), and the identification and mitigation of sprint risks.
• Coached various cross-functional teams in Agile Development, utilizing project management tools like JIRA & Confluence. Successfully facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and QA. Recognized for implementing continuous improvement practices, improving agile execution and enhancing teams' efficiency by over 30%.
• Evaluated scrum maturity of the teams and organization and coached teams to excelling levels of maturity at a pace that is reasonable and consistent for the team and organization.
• Identified complex impediments and blockers, assisting team in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments without delay and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Coached the teams on Agile Best Practices (e.g., T-Shaping, BDD) and facilitated test driven development on all projects yielding increasing application quality over 50%.
• Installed a measurable metric to help track the progress of the Agile development teams, which led to an increase in value to our customers from 60% to 90%.
• Coordinated with other teams to address dependencies and maintain progress toward sprint goals.

• Effectively managed the dependencies between scrum teams and lines of business while actively keeping stakeholders and management aware of project progress and risk. Strengthened the understanding of Agile and the Scrum Framework for the success of major application modernization initiatives with focus on continuously delivering high-quality deliverables aligned with customer needs and requirements.
• Supported Product Owner in managing product backlog to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality services aligned with customer needs.
• Worked with two remote scrum teams consisting of 7 developers each in 2week sprints. The focus was on fraud mitigation on Zelle and prepaid debit cards. Teams utilized Jira tool for planning and tracking workflow.
• As a servant leader ensured the most important priorities of the team members were delegated which enabled them to achieve their sprint goals.
• Conducted scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review, sprint retrospective and backlog refinement.
• Facilitated DevOps discussions to enhance deployment pipeline and improve CI/CD practices.
• Guided the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness and commitment for each sprint.
• Identified and removed escalated risks and roadblocks, and documented cross-team dependencies.
• Participated in and contributed to various Agile Communities of Practice and Scrum of Scrums for dependency resolutions and impediment escalation.
• Fostered a collaborative environment within teams, promoting open dialogue and driving outcome-focused solutions during retrospectives.
• Determined and tracked team's KPI, managed tasks, backlog tracking, burn down metrics and program office reporting.
• Key Contributions:

• Supported teams to apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility bringing in practices such as self-management, empowerment, product vision and technical debt reduction resulting in increased velocity sprint to sprint.
• Facilitated prioritization decisions based on overall business value, aligning product backlog work with strategic goals.
• Partnered with coaches and supported Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure the backlog is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.
• Managed the team using Scaled Agile framework to deliver critical time-sensitive artifacts required to aid the program.
• Conducted 2 weeks' time boxed sprints supporting various simultaneous releases in various states of the life cycle and established business agility concept.
• Guided teams in applying Scrum Framework and agile principles, fostering self-management and empowerment which contributed to increased sprint velocity.
• Prepared, tracked and delivered team metrics, sprints, release progress and communicated to the team, management and stakeholder.
• Maintained and organized team documentation along with critical business and project documentation.