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Courage Tebi

Courage Tebi

Kansas City,Missouri

Summary

Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary agile delivery skills. Demonstrative Agile Practitioner with a passion for coaching teams to high performance, prioritizing tasks and efficiently delivering business value, while adopting best Agile Practices in Value Delivery. Developed a working philosophy to STOP THINK ACT, for maximized resourcefulness, quality improvement, and flexibility in Agile workspaces. . Demonstrative Scrum Master and servant leader with a background in communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Sr Scrum Master

BLUE CROSS BLUESHIELD
Kansas City, MO
08.2021 - Current
  • Scrum Master to 3 Scrum teams in Scaled Agile Environment
  • Worked with team to make product roadmap workable to reflect team’s incremental deliverables and pivot to changing requirements based on major business decisions.
  • Work with Teams to support scrum boards, including feature breakdowns, and make sure all remediation items are closed days before due dates.
  • Working with product owners and tech leads to prioritize backlogs and make backlogs healthy.
  • Active participant in communities of practice to adopt and implement best learning techniques for agile team management.
  • Established guidelines for proper understanding of capacity, story pointing, Definition of Done, and Acceptance Criteria with team.
  • Perform routine checks for healthy backlog maintenance.
  • Served as a filter, removing avoidable impediments foreseen by the team, to facilitate team progress toward sprint goals and incremental value delivery.
  • Increased team performance through continuous coaching on agile methodologies.

Sr Scrum Master

State Farms Insurance
Kansas City
06.2019 - 06.2021
  • Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up meetings, Sprint Reviews, Demos, Retrospectives, and other team building-related meetings
  • Track team's progress using metrics such as burn-down charts, burn-up charts, velocity, cumulative flowchart, and capacity utilization to boost team deliverables.
  • Supporting and guiding product owners in writing good user stories following the behavior-driven format with emphasis on value and estimation.
  • Supporting and keeping healthy product and sprint backlogs, in collaboration with product owner, tech leads, and team members.
  • Promote collaborative work environment built on trust, open communication, and creative thinking among development team members.
  • Protect team from internal and external distractions to achieve our sprint goals and deliver value with each sprint.
  • Supply guidance and track all assigned features and stories from backlog through delivery; conduct regular agile ceremonies to ensure goals and milestones are achieved.
  • Coach teams and stakeholders in improving their Agile thinking and Scrum processes.
  • Evaluate and mentor existing Agile feature teams, and deliver training classes for product owners, new teams, and executive leadership to promote and improve agility.
  • Reduced accumulated team tech debt by 50%.

SCRUM MASTER, Morgan Stanley
, Rhode Island
03.2018 - 05.2019
  • Coached and transformed a waterfall team to Agile mindset, with scrum values as guiding principles.
  • Protected development team from distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, keeping focus on iteration backlog and project timelines.
  • Coached leadership, stakeholders, and teams on Agile principles to support transformation to Agile across organization.
  • Facilitated daily stand-ups, iteration planning, team retrospectives, backlog refinement, and product (software) demonstrations
  • Improved transparency of work and communication, both internally and externally, by creating visual systems to track work progress during iterations
  • Partnered with Product Owner to manage Product Backlog and continuous prioritization of deliverables.
  • Facilitated root cause analysis sessions, to uncover significant issues and create resolve.
  • Ensure that goals, scope, and product backlog items are understood by team members and can be fulfilled.
  • Collaborate with development team to show and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of business/systems requirements and processes
  • Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, finds improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while reducing tech debt and mitigating risk,
  • Tracks and communicates overall team progress for continuous inspection and adaptation.
  • Collaborated to deliver successful deployment sessions.
  • Saved company dollars by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.

Education

Bachelor of Science degree - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Buea
Cameroon
12.2017

Skills

  • Agile Methodologies
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Agile Team Coach
  • SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
  • Project Management Tools: JIRA, JIRA Align
  • Documentation Tools: Confluence, SharePoint
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Best Practices and Tools
  • Release Planning
  • Sprint Planning
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Agile Work Processes
  • Collaborative Team Work
  • Writing Stories
  • Debt Reduction
  • Development Team Trainings
  • Risk Identification
  • Resolve Conflicts
  • Kanban

Certification

Certified SAFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile

Timeline

Sr Scrum Master

BLUE CROSS BLUESHIELD
08.2021 - Current

Sr Scrum Master

State Farms Insurance
06.2019 - 06.2021

SCRUM MASTER, Morgan Stanley
03.2018 - 05.2019

Bachelor of Science degree - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Buea

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