Franklin Obiokoye

• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos
• Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress
• Empower the team to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Coordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives •
• Build a positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
• Coordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
• Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
• Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
• Conduct Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Help the team inspect and adapt the process.
• Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to the Development team.
• Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.

Stakeholder appreciated for managing and contributing to project from different angles - Process

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.
• Worked with the development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of a working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners’ priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles

• Create Full Scale Project Plan, including work breakdown structure, Task dependence, Task Estimate, Resource and Project milestone
• Updating and Reviewing Project Plan with project team members
• Collaborate with the project Manager to define the goal, objective, scope and the deliverables of the project.
• Manage the scope, quality and project timeline according to the project plan
• Organizing and maintaining project team SharePoint site, including ensuring required project documentation are posted, ensuring version control, and access for team members.
• Ensures project control procedures and policies within program of related projects are executed.
• Creating meeting agendas and power point presentations, attending meetings and take minutes as needed.
• Proactively facilitated communication/information exchange between members of the project team and suppliers.
• Supporting the Project Managers by maintaining vital project documentations on our document repository.