Mita Zaman

• Provide guidance to the team and Management on SAFe Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules, essential adherence to Scrum methodologies
• Communicating and working directly with the PO to consistently maintain the product backlog, Define MVPs, Product Road Map and handle changes on product backlog and changes to the executing sprint
• Facilitating daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to burn-down charts, backlog reviews, Retrospectives to perform Agility Health Maturity assessments to address growth items as well as impromptu meetings as needed
• Creating and maintaining risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management
• Building team cohesion and fostering good communication in between multiple development teams in SAFe, also measure and improve team productivity
• Facilitates ART events , PI Planning with customers to gather and document requirements and explore potential solutions and coach LPM( Lean Portfolio Management)
• Supported to setup JIRA board for SAFe Agile SCRUM Development, and Agile Kanban- development model and worked with large Scale Agile Transformation
• Actively working to support all types of release-based tasks, especially scheduling daily bug resolution discussion meetings after the pilot of major system releases
• Participating in weekly operational status update meetings involving various stakeholders
• Scheduling demo sessions involving business sponsors and IT team before any system updates sent to QA environment; based on business sponsor’s feedback
• Encouraged Pair programming and coaching and supporting Product Owner with forecasting Road map according to teams’ velocity and requirements from stakeholders
• Hosting concept/requirement clarification meeting with developers on an as-needed-basis.

• Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement
• Able to subtly observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and growth opportunities of individual team members and her/himself, and invite team members into coaching conversations to inspire learning and growth
• Facilitate various Scrum activities such as: Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings
• Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method
• Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt
• Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication
• Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team's context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics
• Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team
• Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of

Responsibilities:

· Extensive experience working with Programs governed by Federal government as a Servant leader and guided the team on Scrum Values, Practices, and Rules; essential adherence to Scrum methodologies and Develop Lean Agile Training material.

· Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.

· Coaching and mentoring other Scrum masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.

· Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.

· Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

· Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.

· Guides and Leads team through continual improvement process.

· Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.

· Encouraged Pair programming and coaching and supporting Product Owner with forecasting Road map according to teams velocity and requirements from stakeholders.

· Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual), sprint backlog items and overall health of the team by removing obstacles for developers and testers and providing a single point of contact for projects.

· Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.

· Sets and runs effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio, and delivery managers.

· Works with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives and with others to remove delivery team roadblocks.

· Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams Measure and improve team productivity.

· Adopted Agile Process and its best practices as the process product for implementing the project as well as following incremental methodology.

· Worked with the business owner, project manager, and technical team to document the product's vision and establish the project scope.

· Elicited information from end users and senior management to display requirements in a format that allows for easy review, approval, and implementation.

· Performed GAP Analysis and interacted with SME’s, project managers, developers and conducted JAD sessions throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.

· Documented Business scripts after understanding the system thoroughly and translating them to the developers to help incorporate the current system features into the future system.

· Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams.

· Supported software upgrades and installation of projects including facilitation of meetings, tasks scheduling, status, issues, escalations, and change management.

· Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues, and provide feedback to identify defects.

· Executed GUI testing: tested the screen navigation, graphics, and hyperlinks, etc. to ensure requirements are met.

· Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for Backend Testing.

· Participated in the team meetings to discuss issues arising out of the Quality Assurance (QA) testing team and provided appropriate feedback from the requirements perspective.

· Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis.

· Involved in the design phase of the development.

· Worked with the business end users, project and technology management and their staff to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of complex business systems.