OLUBUKOLA ABEJIDE
Summary
- Goal-driven Product Owner and Business Analyst with eight years of hands-on experience in project management and implementation.
- Expert in business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing, and end-user training.
- Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.
- Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Proficient in Agile/Scrum development model with managing Product Backlog, Daily Stand-up Meetings/Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review Meetings, User Story Grooming, etc.
- Adept at coaching scrum teams on agile practices.
- Working with business stakeholders to develop product vision and roadmap.
- Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across multiple teams.
- Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.
- Skilled at scope development and inventory coordination abilities.
- Experienced in using Agile Project Management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Miro, and Mural. Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and technologies/applications.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Kroger Technology, The Kroger Company
05.2021 - Current
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Initiated meetings with a broad range of users and stakeholders to understand objectives; captured requirements.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Articulated the sprint goal for the scrum team
- Created user stories and maintained product backlog
- Coordinated with scrum master on each sprint according to scheduled releases
- Performed data and business analysis to understand better the operational model and underlying data characteristics of the targeted markets.
- Conducted business process analysis and managed business requests for a wide range of activities, including interfacing with management, users, and information technology professionals to create high-level conceptual solutions to business problems
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, and sprint reviews
- Identified changes in project scope and modified job schedule accordingly.
- Contacted stakeholders to share changes to project scope and timelines.
- Collaborated with both the development team services and tasks and business team to support the successful delivery and acted as a project coordinator to communicate with other teams
- Implemented flow diagrams and UML diagrams and translated them into technical documents
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
Sr Business Analyst
US Foods
04.2019 - 05.2021
- Elicited requirements by identifying system users and conducting interviews
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate them into requirements and project scope.
- Analyzed the scope document and the current business processes to gain a better understanding of the project
- Interviewed subject matter experts (SME), asking appropriate questions and carefully documenting their requirements, thus forming a communication link between business and technical units
- Performed and coordinated the analysis, design, development, and implementation of requirements
- Conducted JAD sessions and interviews with developers and SMEs to elicit requirements
- Documented, communicated effectively, and helped to resolve feedback, questions, and enhancement requests
- Managed stakeholder's expectations effectively.
- Participated in cross-functional team meetings with several various units to gather information on the business processes and workflow
- Conducted research and business analysis for client services and system enhancement by continuously interacting with the business users
- Analyzed workflow systems to identify opportunities for improvement and developed flowcharts using Lucidchart
- Maintained and prioritized testing issues logs, ensuring that issues and scope changes were managed within the developer's workflow
- Assisted in developing test plans and test cases and performed user acceptance testing
Sr Business Analyst
Ross Stores
05.2017 - 03.2019
- Analyzed the scope document and the current business processes to gain a better understanding of the project.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate them into requirements and project scope.
- Interviewed subject matter experts (SME) by asking appropriate questions and carefully documenting their requirements, thus forming a communication link between business and technical units.
- Elicited requirements by identifying system users and conducting interviews.
- Conducted JAD sessions and interviews with developers and SMEs to elicit requirements.
- Documented, communicated effectively, and helped to resolve feedback, questions, and enhancement requests.
- Managed stakeholders' expectations effectively.
- Participated in cross-functional team meetings with several various units to gather information on the business processes and workflow.
- Conducted research and business analysis for client services for system enhancement.
- Analyzed workflow systems to identify opportunities for improvement and developed flowcharts using Lucid Chart.
- Assisted in developing test plans and test cases; also performed user acceptance testing.
Senior Business Analyst
Verizon Wireless
04.2016 - 05.2017
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate them into requirements and project scope.
- Developed system diagrams and workflows using Lucid Chart as required for Project Analysis, Planning, and Design.
- Conducted JAD sessions with the users and the developers to analyze and understand the product development process.
- Worked closely with the Scrum Master in planning, coordination, and implementing scrum methodology.
- Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
- Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Involved in writing and implementing the test plan and various test cases for UAT.
- Communicated with the development team to resolve the issues and performed regression testing to verify bug fixes.
- Coordinated with the QA team for System Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.
- Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
Business Analyst
Lowe's
06.2014 - 04.2016
- Collaborated with the project manager in developing the scope of the project and defining primary goals and objectives.
- Coordinated workshops with stakeholders to define the scope of the new system.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to gather information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed key aspects of the business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized them into presentations.
- Liaised between the technical team (developers, testers) and users (Client) to ensure both sides were aligned.
- Wrote Use Cases, process flow diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, and sequence diagrams that could help validate different business processes in the loan system.
- Coordinated data mapping in the development and implementation process.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Used Bugzilla to track bugs.
- Conducted risk assessment and risk management.
- Provided training materials for users and trained users to better use the system.
Education
Certificate in Strategy Execution -
Harvard Business School Online
10.2022
MBA - Marketing Management
Lagos State University
Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication
Auchi Polytechnic
Skills
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Conflict Resolution
- People Skills
- Agile (Scrum) Best Practices
- Bug Fixes
- JAD Sessions
- Problem Identification and Resolution
- Project Management
- Requirements Elicitation
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Strategic & Operations Planning
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Waterfall Methodology
- Change Management
- Team building
- User story slicing & backlog items estimation
Documentation
- Business Requirement Document
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Functional and Non-functional Specification
- Mockups and Design Frames
- Sequence Diagrams
- Process Design
- Project Scope Document
- Traceability Matrix
- SWOT analysis
- Use Case Document
- User story
Tools
- Confluence
- Google docs
- Jira
- Lucid chart
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Microsoft VISIO
- Miro
- Mural
- SharePoint
- Trello
Certification
Scrum Alliance
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
Project Management Institute
- Project Management Professional (PMP)-In progress
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Product Owner
Kroger Technology, The Kroger Company
05.2021 - Current
Sr Business Analyst
US Foods
04.2019 - 05.2021
Sr Business Analyst
Ross Stores
05.2017 - 03.2019
Senior Business Analyst
Verizon Wireless
04.2016 - 05.2017
Business Analyst
Lowe's
06.2014 - 04.2016
Certificate in Strategy Execution -
Harvard Business School Online
MBA - Marketing Management
Lagos State University
Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication
Auchi Polytechnic
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