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• Use Agile subject matter expertise to coach program leadership and team on Agile processes resulting in implementation and adoption of Agile methodology
• Facilitating team ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Retrospectives
• Establish Agile metric (velocity, Sprint burndown chart) to monitor Agile process resulting in efficiency appreciation
• Coaching waterfall teams through transition process of becoming mature agile team
• Achieving impediments removal, impediments escalation, managing risks, solving challenges associated with scrum teams, and product development
• Coaching teams in agile practices and providing necessary training to create positive mindset that leads to agile behaviors
• Serving as main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project/product phases, increasing transparency and communication level to 98%
• Protecting scrum team from outside distractions, impediments, and team conflicts, to maintain focus on product backlog items delivery, project goals, and timeline
• Empowering teams to make continuous improvements in their working processes by actioning retrospective items captured in sprint retrospective meetings and showing results of actioned items to encourage more feedback from teams
• Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting 99% of project deadline
• Tracking and effectively communicating team’s velocity and agreed upon agile metrics to all stakeholders increasing transparency by 95%
• Facilitating discussion during backlog refinement and sprint planning to achieve effective user story estimation and development plan, which leads to exceeding and meeting sprint goals.
• Performed continuous evaluations of content and plans to enhance delivery and improve effectiveness
• Quickly adapted training plans for client needs, keeping timelines, budgets and desires in mind
• Implemented new training courses after assessing corporate data and identifying employee weaknesses
• Prepared and presented supplementary learning material to support structured lessons

• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity

• Led software development teams on agile values, principles, and scrum practices to improve quick delivery of work
• Worked with product owners and stakeholders to clarify schedule, status, and details of each project for better understanding and flow of work
• Protected 2 Agile development teams from internal and external distractions and impediments to ensure focus on incremental value delivery
• Built relationships with Product Owners and other Stakeholders to facilitate teams’ interaction through effective communications with insight customer groups for faster feedback
• Taught and facilitated scrum ceremonies for teams and encouraged team development self organization within team
• Worked with other scrum masters and Agile coaches to start community of practice to help improve agile maturity and mentality within organization
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment
• Strong servant leader, lead and work with multiple and diverse personalities
• Communicated effectively across diverse audiences within and outside teams to foster adequate flow of information
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on task to improve productivity
• Guided team on how to get most out of self-organization to fill in intentional gaps left in Agile/Scrum frameworks.

• Successfully coached and transitioned teams from traditional waterfall environment to embrace Agile methodology
• Coached and mentored teams to be self-organized and highly functional through cross functionality and team collaboration
• Facilitated Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) to enhance collaboration and transparency
• Used key performance indicators such as (Burndown chart, Burn up chart Velocity chart) to track and report projects and promote transparency
• Held backlog refinement sessions with product owner to ensure Product Backlog readiness
• Proactive in managing and implementing solutions to identified issues, risks, and impediments
• Promoted teams’ cross-functionality to promote swarming on product backlog items
• Responsible for Coaching and leading Cross-functional Teams on System Modernization projects
• Contributed to Faster and cheaper solutions for organization during implementation of project using Scrum
• Identified potential risks and helped develop mitigation plans to resolve potential issues
• This included identifying indicators that may obstruct progress or may no longer be within scope or assigned budget
• Supported and educated Product Owners, especially on grooming and maintaining product
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• Facilitated all iteration ceremonies: Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and
• Iteration Retrospective.
• Provided platform for cross-team collaboration and planning highlighting dependencies with
• Identified ways for mitigation and resolution of conflicts/roadblocks during scrum o
• Promoted continuous positive mindset by empowering team to identify areas of

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• Collaborated with product owner to actively prioritize backlog to ensure backlog

• Coached and mentored team members on agile practices and principles.
• Tracked and reported progress to key stakeholders via KPIs like velocity burn-up and burndown chart.
• Assisted team in resolving impediments on time and escalating to RTE as needed.
• Track and share team progress and challenges with other scrum masters at scrum of
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• Built trusted and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame, Retribution or being judged, with emphasis on healing and problem-solving
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity