Verkline Egbe

Scrum Master for Two (6) cross-functional teams on a major project involving the Development of a full clock in functionality for our mobile application

• Collaborate with the Product Owner, UX designer, and tech lead to determine the direction of the team
• Identify obstacles and risks that block the teams and find solutions to bring high performance and fast delivery
• Shared responsibility for the product development cycle, through problem validation, implementing a solution, and validating the solution
• Collaborate with QA engineers to write test cases and manually test to ensure the quality of the product
• Create end-user documentation, business rules, and support training for end users
• Work with the product teams to create scrum artifacts like user stories, backlogs, active sprint backlog
• Gather and write acceptance criteria and requirements in small testable increments and metrics to plan when teams would deliver a milestone
• Facilitate all scrum events for the teams like sprint review, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives in a large-scaled scrum setting with multiple backlogs and up to six scrum teams
• Responsible for educating the teams on continuous improvement in areas like time management, velocity, circle time, dependency management, and open communication
• Educate and coach my teams and other teams/departments about Agile practices and how to implement them, support and ideology of an iterative approach to innovation
• Facilitate communication between Agile teams and stakeholders
• Experience in preparing for ISO Audit 9000 and being fully compliant.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Optimized resource allocation by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in project workflows, leading to reduced time-to-market for product releases.
• Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.

Responsible for coordinating SAFe Scrum activities for team as we transition from oracle database to AWS Software using DMS

• Building an intuitive cloud-based management software that transforms safety culture and drives worker participation and leadership, using computer clouding technologies
• Actively coordinating and participating in Scrum of Scrum meetings with the product owner and program manager
• Participated in Product Backlog Item estimation and coached teams on using techniques like relative sizing
• Suggested and championed the creation of a KANBAN team to supplement three (3) existing Scrum teams, predominantly made up of non-functional roles which directly reduced lag time from dependencies by 70%
• Use techniques like INVEST in helping developers determine Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
• Participate in digital service delivery activities, such as user research and usability testing
• Significantly reduced scope creep through user story transparency and scope definition by continuously collaborating with clients, product owners, and developers
• Constantly and proactively worked on removing internal/external impediments, blockers, and distractions that could slow down sprint progress
• Coach, guide, and empower teams in the development of an Inspection software app
• Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
• Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.