IYANU ALEGBELEYE
Melissa,Texas
Summary
Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows, with a unique experience and extensive knowledge spanning over 5 years that utilizes Agile Frameworks and Practices.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
SCRUM MASTER
Accenture
02.2021 - Current
- Support two agile teams as Scrum Master
- Resolved impediments preventing agile team from employing agile and lean processes
- Lead and mentored agile team via empowerment and support
- Coached teams on agile and lean principles and practices, increasing agile maturity and self-organization
- Utilized feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity and monitor progress against commitments
- Conducted review meetings with end-users to gather and document business needs and translate into functional requirement documents
- Created metrics to provide development teams and other stakeholders with feedback
- Assessed current and future customer needs and priorities by communicating directly with customers, conducting surveys and other methods
- Prepared project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
- Facilitate agile ceremonies and coach team members to do the same
- Ensure retrospective improvement items are implemented in subsequent sprints
- Monitored performance of agile team members, provided and documented performance feedback
- Implemented technical agile best practices to decrease system down time and mitigate loss of customers
- Identified single sources of failure and recommended cross-training
- Created a cross training plan that was implemented for multiple programs and teams
- Conferred with project personnel to identify and resolve problems
- Identified, reviewed, and selected vendors and consultants to meet project needs
- Initiated, reviewed, and approved modifications to project plans
- Established and executed project communication plan
- Managed project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule and scope.
SCRUM MASTER
Chase Bank
05.2019 - 02.2021
- Served as a Scrum Master to 3 teams and as a coach to various client organizations, educating them on scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
- Coached management and Agile teams of various Financial Institutions.
- Coached the Scrum teams on user story writing, story slicing, prioritization, story estimation, task definition, Definition of Ready & Done while ensuring high value requirements were delivered quickly.
- Proactively identified and removed impediments that could serve as blockers.
- Provided support to the teams using a servant leadership style and led by example.
- Ensured that development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, respect, improvement & learning cycles, mutual accountability, pride in ownership, delivering value and the ability to adapt to change.
- Motivated and protected the teams from external disturbance to ensure they stayed focused on delivering potentially releasable product increment every week.
- Helped build a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear.
- Assisted the Product Owner in ensuring requirements are better expressed as independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small and testable user stories.
- Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down & burn-up charts and velocity.
- Communicated team overall progress using various charts and dashboards.
- Encouraged team knowledge sharing and collaboration through designs sessions, pair programming, code reviews, swarming and cross-training.
- Experience in Behavior Driven Development & Test-Driven Development projects.
- Knowledge & experience in other frameworks such as Kanban, Scrumban, Lean, and Scaling Scrum.
SCRUM MASTER
Deloitte
06.2018 - 04.2019
- Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
- Managed product backlog effectively, 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.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
Education
Associate in Computer Science -
01.2022
Bachelor’s in computer engineering -
01.2013
Skills
- Systems Analysis
- Standardized Methodologies
- Release Planning
- Team Engagement
- Technology Implementation
- Atlassian JIRA
- Confluence
- Training Methodologies
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Change Management Process
- Project Team Coordination
- Acceptance Criteria
- Sprint Planning
- External Communications
Timeline
SCRUM MASTER
Accenture
02.2021 - Current
SCRUM MASTER
Chase Bank
05.2019 - 02.2021
SCRUM MASTER
Deloitte
06.2018 - 04.2019
Associate in Computer Science -
Bachelor’s in computer engineering -
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