ADESUWA BECKY PORTER

- Support Digital Experience and Delivery team (and its sub-teams) in Agile methodologies and drive consistent adoption of Jira to streamline effective and predictable delivery.

- Analyze progress of projects and maintain current records with latest information to track and analyze workload distribution, blocked stories, work in progress, and backlog data.

- Provide Jira training sessions for 120+ team members.

- Reach out to individuals to set up one-on-one weekly or bi-weekly appointments for status updates.

- Performed UAT for enterprise Jira Data Migration effort

- Currently serving as "Change Champion" during Jira Migration to assist multiple teams whilst enabling strong internal communications to support change management.

- Implemented rules which have encouraged team transparency, continuously provide accurate information for capacity planning and have increased team focus and productivity by 60%.

- Lead multiple projects from start to finish, and create delivery management dashboards on Jira to support organization's leadership.

-Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to identify and document requirements, create project plan, outline success criteria, monitor and drive progress, identify and escalate blockers.

- Lead mid-sized time-limited project or components of larger project and directs one or more teams of business consultants involved in development of new procedures/processes and facilitate process design changes and execute process improvement initiatives.

- Analyze and measure effectiveness of existing business processes and develop sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable business process improvements.

- Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.

- Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.

• Create and follow project timelines, create process updates, recommend tools or resources, and inspire new process/tools adoption through good communication, training, and follow-ups
• Assess and mitigate risk while working in a fast-paced environment
• Create long and short-term project plans that articulate project milestones
• Regular tracking and communication of implementation progress including project kick-off, regular status updates, and project closure
• This includes tracking of equipment delivery, installation, and testing
• Conduct planning sessions with t client’s key functional leaders to create a series of documented management plans that specify the project plan and scope
• Work with team to ensure RAID Log was current and relayed any challenges or risk to the PMO
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
• Track project performance using Jira software, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Manage the relationship with the client and relevant stakeholders
• 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.

• Worked closely with teams to plan projects, preparing documents
• Prepare financial and progress reports and communicate information about these to relevant staff
• Communicate requirements to relevant departments and employees to keep progress on track
• Created monthly progress reports and communicated results to appropriate staff
• Exercised SAFe core values to enhance company alignment whilst operational objectives and work plans were established and assignments delegated to subordinate managers
• Established project control procedures such as project forecasts and cash flow projections
• Assisted with team building initiatives and overall support for maintenance of organizational culture and employee morale
• Coordinating all training events and creating all training material by analyzing best practices across the industry using all media outlets (i.e., videos, printed materials, web-based curriculum, etc.)
• Participate on project teams in collaborations with Project managers to update schedules, milestone, and financials
• Responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating the smooth organization and successful execution of assigned projects.