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Shade Alabi

Houston,TX

Summary

An accomplished servant leader, I possess extensive knowledge in agile principles, values, and practices. I excel at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum practices, removing impediments, and fostering self-organization. With an in-depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle within Agile disciplines, I adeptly leverage agile methods to align with business initiatives, delivering quantifiable and sustainable results. I am an advocate for change, creating an environment of continuous improvement by challenging the status quo and developing a compelling case for change.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master

Charles Schwab
Austin, TX
07.2022 - Current
  • Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog Refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
  • Gather user and Business Requirements through open-ended discussions, brainstorming sessions and role-playing.
  • Work closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming Coach Team / PO on Scrum and Kanban frameworks to maximize functionality
  • Build a trusting environment where the team is comfortable raising issues without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
  • Responsible for setting up Kanban boards, discussed with customers to understand their expectations in order to determine metrics like lead time and cycle time
  • Use the teams' JIRA board to oversee workflow, assign stories
    Assist agile release team to implement branching and merging strategies
  • Communicate with management and outside stakeholders.
    Improve teams' velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
  • Participate in Scrum of Scrums and assist the teams with SAFe practices
  • Ensure teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD).
  • Identify and remove impediments to teams' work progress quickly within a short period of time. Escalate only when all other options have been taken.
  • Teach problem-solving techniques and help the teams become better problem-solvers for themselves.
  • Make sure the teams' work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn-down, bum-up, and team velocity and defect summary reports.
  • Shield the teams from interruptions and remove obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product.
  • Manage dependencies between the team and other scrum teams.
    Help the product owner manage the product
  • Assist teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality, and speed.
  • Help the organization solve problems rather than providing solutions.
    Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.
  • Persuade and motivate delivery teams to utilize their general and specialized skills to complete projects on time and on budget.

Scrum Master

Kroger
Houston, TX
05.2020 - 06.2022
  • Facilitated scrum meetings (sprint release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and daily scrum).
  • Collaborated with product owners on developing, updating, prioritizing and grooming the product backlog.
  • Conducted working sessions and planning meetings for User Stories elaboration and decomposition
  • Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team member to focus on the sprint goals and deliverables.
  • Ensured timely updates by regularly communicating project status and progress to management and executives.
  • Coach team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
  • Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organized and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
  • Removed impediments or guided the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Organized and led release planning for a delivery of group of multiple scrum teams assigned to a product feature group resulting in a creation of a project road map Utilized Azure deVops and RALLY to track team progress.
  • Managed sprint backlogs, iterations as well as facilitating daily standup meetings.
  • Made sure stakeholders were engaged and expectations had been set regarding their involvement and participation
  • Worked with delivery teams to mitigate impediments and ease the entire development process.
  • Ensured the development team is worked efficiently towards sprint goals.
  • Ensured Scrum Team's adherence to agile practice through one en one coaching and retrospectives
  • Successfully guided two cross-functional development teams through transition from waterfall to agile development.

Scrum Master

Sam's Club
New York , NY
04.2019 - 05.2020
  • I spearheaded Agile transformations as a seasoned Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience, utilizing project management tools like JIRA, RALLY, Confluence, and Azure DevOps to enhance team productivity and support cloud-based development teams.Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.
  • Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.
  • Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
  • Identified key components and integration touch points for component testing and end-to-end system testing based on design reviews.
  • Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals.
  • Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.
  • Secured continuous project scope alignment with business objectives and made modifications to enhance effectiveness toward intended result.
  • Managed change requests, resolving conflicts as they arose.
  • I maintained a proven track record of liaising with stakeholders and senior management to report the team's progress, utilizing my extensive experience in Agile and Kanban environments to ensure transparent and effective communication

Scrum Master

Capital One
Manhattan, NY
07.2017 - 03.2019
  • Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
  • Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
  • Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.
  • Assisted with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives.
  • Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
  • Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
  • Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
  • Participated in feature design discussions offering insights from an Agile perspective when necessary.
  • Collaborated with other Scrum Masters across teams to ensure consistency in processes and tools used.
  • Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
  • Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
  • Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Touro University
New York
06-2016

Skills

  • Coaching/Mentoring
  • Servant Leadership
  • Facilitator
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Stakeholder Management
  • SAFe
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Relative Sizing/Story Pointing
  • Scrum/Kanban
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Burn down and Burn-up charts
  • Team Velocity Tracking
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Scrum Events Facilitation
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Process Optimization
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Salesforce

Technical Expertise

Agile PM Tools: MS Azure DevOps (ADO),Jira, Rally, VersionOne, TFS, Rational, Redmine, Confluence, ServiceNow, HP Quality Center ALM, FreshDesk ITSM,Salesforce, Kofax TotalAgility 7.5, Zoom, Slack.
Software Applications: AWS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Exalate, Hyperion, Cognos, NetSuite, Caliber, Visio,
Databases : MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Hadoop, SharePoint,
Platforms:  Windows Server, LINUX, Chrome, Mac OS, Low Code Platform Config, SaaS platforms

Timeline

Scrum Master

Charles Schwab
07.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Kroger
05.2020 - 06.2022

Scrum Master

Sam's Club
04.2019 - 05.2020

Scrum Master

Capital One
07.2017 - 03.2019

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Touro University

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