Senior Consultant - Agile Project Management
Guidehouse
Washington, District of Columbia
12.2021 - Current
- Guided teams in implementing Agile methodologies and best practices for project delivery.
- Coordinated sprint planning sessions to define project goals and priorities effectively.
- Trained team members on Scrum processes to enhance understanding and execution.
- Monitored team progress and conducted retrospectives to improve future sprints.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA and Confluence to track project progress and milestones.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
- Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to promote team communication and collaboration.
- Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements for new systems and projects.
- Documented user stories and business requirements for software development teams.
- Developed process maps to visualize workflows and enhance operational understanding.
- Prepared reports and presentations to communicate findings to management teams.
- Managed projects and served as primary liaison between client and multiple internal groups to clarify goals and meet standards and deadlines.
- Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to define requirements for new projects.
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions with cross-functional teams for problem solving activities.
- Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality.
- Gathered feedback from end users regarding usability issues related to applications or systems.