Rynna Oben

• Provide Agile training and coaching for Scrum teams and leadership to ensure the adoption and improvement of Scrum practices, process and desired outcomes and to establish a culture of self-organizing, cross-functional and accountable teams

• Schedule and facilitate Scrum meetings as required including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum and Sprint Reviews to enable teams to plan and deliver customer value based on the highest priority and the team’s available capacity.

• Assist teams to identify, communicate and resolve or escalate impediments and issues; Run interference for non-critical unplanned work that may prevent the team from completing their planned Sprint goal

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information

• Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of team and leadership retrospectives, ensuring teams effectively prioritize, plan and execute on improvement ideas

• Identify and use metrics to support and guide continuous improvement

• Successfully mapped out support intake process Enterprise Quote teams

• Successfully lead 2022 Base Price Adjust Reset for Home-Depot and other dealer channels
• Support leaders in developing their leadership effectiveness
• Encourage a balanced work pipeline that reduces technical debt, provides bossiness value and, delivers value for customers

• Ensured that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the team to encourage the delivery of high-quality, high-value products
• Champion the adoption of Lean-Agile behaviors that contribute to the achievement of the client's vision of high-performance Scrum
• Conduct 1-on-1 coaching sessions to help Scrum team members successfully navigate their individual change journeys
• Exist as an example of servant-leadership to the Scrum Team and their Leadership
• ·Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests, Identify and help to remove impediments that are impeding the Scrum Team's productivity
• Formulated strategy and amplified operational excellence by partnering with stakeholders to deliver key performance indicators (KPI) through influencing, mentoring, coaching, and engaging with teams.
• Helping team focus on daily and sprint goals in context of current product objectives, leading team efforts in relentless improvement by helping team take ownership of their actions items as identified during team retrospective
• Maintained project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports
• Configure Scrum Team views in Jira to include: Sprint Summary Dashboard, Release Dashboard, Team Velocity Dashboard, Scrum/Team Board, Team Capacity View, and Impediments and Risks View/Dashboard
• ·Assist the Scrum Team in the creation or revision of working agreements to enhance their process and practice retrospectives (e.g., Definition of Done and Definition of Ready)
• Assist Agile Teams with brainstorming, prioritizing, and implementing their improvement ideas
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Business Analysts to prepare and facilitate efficient Story Refinement sessions

• Facilitate backlog refinement meeting ensuring a healthy backlog for my teams (making sure my teams have 3 weeks to 6 weeks of ready story at its backlog)
• Navigate from road map to plan, influencing sequencing, resolving dependencies, identifying, and mitigating risk
• Expose impediments and coached the team on removing impediments and partnering with leadership to remove impediments outside the capabilities of the team
• Implement data driven improvement by identify, owning and documenting dependency and risk on Jira Align then Monitor and manage dependencies/risk with other teams to ensure smooth delivery
• Ensure teams move stories to the right state during daily stand up and ensure the PO move features to the correct PI/ sprint to increase transparency
• Introduce trivia questions during daily stand up to give my team another reason to attend the stand up
• Work with product owner during sprint planning to develop the sprint goal, write good user stories using INVEST, ensuring stories are vertically slice and make sure the team understands unknowns, clarify doubts, identify risk, dependency and understanding the business value of the user story
• Review Data such as the big Six Agile matrices (Committed % stories, planned work %,
• Completion %, Story throughput variance, backlog health and feature cycle time) to illustrate change, delivery trends, insights and discuss actions needed after every sprint
• Facilitate retrospective using tools such as Mural, Hindsight and Jam board and develop and use different icebreaker techniques like solving a puzzle, giving the clue and cahoots games to encourage collaboration, boost team morals and increase team bonding
• Analyze and communicate project risks and issues to upper management promptly and provide solutions where applicable
• Use confluence to document my team norms, retrospective, definition of ready and done, Pi objectives, impediments, risk, dependency, teams capacity, teams confidence vote, features, sprint goals and constantly review the documentation with my team during retro to make sure the team is aligned
• Set up a bi-weekly pull up meeting with my manager to discuss progress, road blockers, ideas, and areas of opportunities to constantly improve and add values to my team
• Attend other teams' ceremonies to learn and gain other techniques and ways to improve to can support my team.
• Participated in SOS meetings with RTE to discuss road blocks and progress of teams in the PI

• Conducted and participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues
• Created workflow diagrams and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines
• Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations
• Developed and documented Business requirements, Functional requirements, Test Plans, Use Cases for scheduling process systems
• Provided clear and concise feedback to the development team on recurring errors both on individual and team basis with the aim of long term reduction of defects found in the final release