WAFI ASGAR

Support IT Modernization of GSA's Personal Property Management Systems (PPMS). The PPM program assists federal, state, and local government agencies to acquire, reuse, and dispose of Assets, Tools, Equipment, and other personal property items

• Facilitate the Agile methodology & activities, manage, lead & direct the work efforts of resources that are functionally aligned as part of the project team
• Work in close collaboration with stake holders, product owners and other scrum teams to ensure alignment of project priorities, consistency in understanding, timely removal of impediments
• Work with Product Owner, Stake holders to clarify requirements and translate them into stories for easy development by delivery team
• Engage stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations
• Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing
• Facilitate & resolve impediment in a timely, cost effective manner
• Create UAT scripts and lead the UAT effort and track UAT defects and metrics.
• Ability to act as a liaison between testers, developers, clients, and other stakeholders during all phases of development
• Building a high-performing team - managing interpersonal conflicts, challenges, opportunities for growth, escalates people problems to team lead/management as necessary
• Lead the scrum team in using agile methodology and scrum practices
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process
• Motivate, encourage and coach teams to continuously explore ways to improve
• Help scrum teams to understand and consistently practice scrum values of courage, commitment, focus, openness and respect
• Effectively track team's progress, including burn down, velocity, and release forecasting
• Prepare executive summaries for management and stake holders
• Create learning and coaching opportunities to help team improve technical skills and ways to work more efficiently together.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring a cohesive approach to business analysis.
• Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
• Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
• Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
• Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.
• Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
• Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
• Increased efficiency in resource allocation by conducting detailed business requirements analysis.
• Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.

• Capture requirements through stakeholder meetings, historical / current documentation, videos and other outlets for requirements analysis and documentation
• Responsible for gathering, reviewing, modifying and recommending business requirements for information technology projects
• Works with internal and external stakeholders to ensure customer goals are achieved
• Elicits and documents business requirements
• Acts as point of contact for feedback and provides support to end users to resolve issues
• Occasionally required to review test cases and performs user testing
• Identifies risks and impediments, works with team to remove them quickly and enable team to meet sprint goal on time
• Scheduled and facilitated all scrum ceremonies including, product backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint review, daily stand up meeting and sprint retrospectives
• Used various techniques and strategies to help team to increase transparency, open communication, respect, constructive feedback, self-organization and cross functionality.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, e.g., product backlog refinement, pre planning, planning, daily standup's, sprint reviews, retrospectives
• Work with the scrum team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support the organizational project or product teams
• Help teams to define acceptance criteria, definition of done
• Help Testers and Engineers create test plans and test scenarios
• Worked on development of projects following agile practices and values from conception to delivery
• Coached new team members on agile and scrum values on strategies to increase transparency, efficiency and overall productivity
• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom product backlog
• Track team's progress daily using burndown chart in Jira
• Identify risks & impediments to sprint goals and propose solutions to address them quickly and efficiently
• Protected teams from internal & external distractions allowing teams to focus on project & meet sprint goal on time.