Ajaratu Sanu

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
• Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
• Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
• Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
• Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
• Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
• Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.

• Facilitated scrum events – 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.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for periodic sprint releases.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to teams.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
• Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
• Resolved teams conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
• Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.
• Generated reports for IT project progress and performance.
• Conducted quality assurance to verify accuracy of data used in IT projects.

· Collaborated with other scrum masters in resolving impediments, risks, and dependencies.

· Fostered a continuous improvement space to mitigate/ remove waste via lean principle and effective retrospective session.

· Facilitated scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, sprint/iteration planning, daily stand-ups, sprint/iteration review and retrospective meetings respectively).

· Encouraged the team to build quality shippable increment that meets customer satisfaction.

· Fostered effective communication and collaboration techniques across teams through coaching and team relationship building activities.

· Assessed team metrics, Ex, scrum board, velocity and burndown chat and worked towards innovative and new approaches that improved workflow.

· Motivated and coached the team to practice Agile theories and practices as it increases efficiencies and timeliness.

· Ensured team had clarity on user story and encouraged a healthy collaboration outside the daily stand-ups.

· Encouraged peer programming and team building activities to ensure the team is cross functional and self-managed.

· Worked with the team to draft DOD and DOR.

· Worked with the product owner and stakeholders to prioritize the product and sprint backlog.

· Communicate with stakeholders on sprint progress, risks or limitation through metrics review meetings.

· Used Jira to create projects, scrum and metrics board during spring/iteration planning preparation.

· Facilitated pre-PI planning workshops with product owner, and the team prior PI planning to ensure the sprints backlog for the PI are updated with the appropriate capacities, and clarity on the user stories before the big event.

· Calculate teams' velocity and capacity prior PI planning.

· Helped facilitate PI planning with the Release Train Engineer and other scrum masters by updating the teams' space in MURAL to ensure user stories are staged appropriately on the board prior the meeting.