AKUM FONGANG

• Foster a collaborative and self-organizing culture within the team to include trust, respect, and accountability.
• Guide the Team on using scrum and agile practices, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and PI Planning
• Help the product owner create and maintain a healthy product backlog by teaching them prioritization techniques such as MOSCO and prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
• Facilitate the resolution of conflicts within and between teams, fostering a positive and collaborative working environment.
• Train, mentor, and support Scrum teams to follow agile values and principles
• Ensuring user stories are written in simple, clear actionable items with detailed acceptance criteria to guide developers to make sure we achieve maximum customer satisfaction.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of punishment
• Ensure the team is fully functional and productive and shield them from external interference
• Collaborated with the product owner to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Work with developers to Identified potential risks early in the project lifecycle and implemented mitigation strategies accordingly.
• Implemented key performance metrics to track team progress and identify areas of improvement consistently throughout projects'' lifecycles.
• Boosted customer satisfaction scores by providing regular updates on product enhancements resulting from feedback provided during sprint review meetings.
• Facilitate all team meetings, including but not limited to the daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and backlog refinement.
• Actively identify, address, and remove impediments to ensure assigned sprints and projects are completed on time

• As a servant leader. Drives team discussion and collaboration, coaching agile principles and the continuous improvement mindset, in addition to helping cause impediment removal by working closely with other teams and impacted stakeholders
• Work with the product owner to effectively manage the product backlog, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
• Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
• Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
• Provide leadership and guidance to multiple Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with Agile principles and practices.
• Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
• Facilitate the resolution of conflicts within and between teams, fostering a positive and collaborative working environment.
• Guide the Team on using scrum and agile practices, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and big room Planning
• Collaborated with product owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Facilitated seamless integration of new team members into existing projects without compromising productivity levels.
• Identified potential risks early in the project lifecycle and implemented mitigation strategies accordingly.
• Encouraged cross-functional collaboration by organizing workshops and training sessions for different departments within the organization.
• Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
• Boosted customer satisfaction scores by providing regular updates on product enhancements resulting from feedback provided during sprint review meetings.
• Facilitated Scrum Framework: sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• I coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset for Agile methodologies.
• Provide regular reports to stakeholders on project progress, team performance, and Agile metrics.

· Experienced in leading both Distributed and co-located team with the ability to handle multiple projects and teams simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy by leveraging communication and project management tools such as MS Teams, ZOOM , Webex, Jira/Confluence, Rally,etc

· I am a great servant leader and people's person. I relate to people from different backgrounds and different cultures because of my effective communication skills and my ability to lead from a service standpoint.

· Effective communicator and facilitators with great skills leading scrum and Agile events such as big room plannings, sprint planning, and reviews, as well as retrospectives and helping the team make decisions and resolve challenges

· Change agent who has transitioned multiple teams from waterfall to agile through coaching, teaching, and mentoring these teams on Agile fundamentals and best practices. I am an expert at driving the adoption of agile and scrum values and principles.

· Experienced in leading Kanban and SAFe teams and helping these teams set WIP limits as well as breakout sessions for big room planning.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills and great experience facilitating sprint planning events, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinements. Also assisted with internal and external communication to improve transparency.

· I worked with RTEs to plan and facilitate PI planning, breakout sessions, and scrums of scrums for my entire release train.

· I worked closely with product owners on product backlog refinements, backlog prioritization, risk management, and release planning.

· helped in defining working agreements, the definition of ready, and the definition of done, and then ensured these agreements were upheld.