Yuliia Romanova

Facilitating Continuity in Scrum Practices: Lead daily stand-ups and sprint planning sessions to ensure the smooth operation of existing healthcare applications, such as ID card management and benefits selection. Focus on maintaining current workflows without disruption.

Strategic Alignment in Sprint Planning: Align sprint goals with the strategic objectives of the established healthcare application, ensuring that enhancements and bug fixes support key functionalities like membership information accuracy and benefits attachment.

Resource Management in Agile Environments: Efficiently allocate and manage resources across sprints, ensuring that development efforts are focused on maintaining and optimizing existing features within the healthcare application, such as provider interaction and user data management.

Risk Identification and Mitigation in Sprints: Proactively identify and address risks during sprint cycles that could impact the stability and performance of the healthcare application. Develop mitigation strategies that align with the current operational framework.

Stakeholder Engagement with Agile Communication: Engage stakeholders through regular sprint reviews and retrospectives, ensuring their feedback is incorporated into the ongoing maintenance and optimization of existing processes.

Tracking Progress Through Agile Metrics: Monitor and track sprint progress using agile metrics (e.g., burndown charts, velocity) to ensure that the development team is on track to meet the needs of the healthcare application without exceeding the current scope.

Quality Assurance in Sprint Deliverables: Oversee the quality of sprint deliverables, ensuring that all new features and fixes meet the existing standards and enhance the application's core functionalities, such as benefits plan selection and ID card issuance.

Managing Scope Changes within Sprints: Handle any changes to the program’s scope, schedule, or budget within sprint cycles, ensuring that these changes do not disrupt the established healthcare application and continue to meet user expectations.

Leadership and Collaboration in Agile Teams: Provide leadership to the Scrum team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the existing healthcare application environment. Ensure that the team remains focused on delivering incremental value.

Effective Communication in Scrum Events: Facilitate clear and concise communication within the Scrum team and across stakeholders during Scrum events (e.g., sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives), ensuring alignment and transparency throughout the project.

Continuous Process Improvement in Agile Practices: Identify opportunities for continuous improvement within the Scrum framework, implementing best practices that enhance efficiency and effectiveness without altering the core structure of the healthcare application.

Compliance with Agile Governance: Ensure that all Scrum processes and deliverables comply with organizational policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements, maintaining the reliability and integrity of the healthcare application.

Tool Configuration for Agile Workflow: Configure and optimize agile tools (e.g., Jira, Trello) to support the Scrum process within the existing healthcare application. Implement customizations that enhance sprint tracking, capacity planning, and reporting, resulting in improved decision-making and transparency.

Leadership and Team Alignment within Existing Frameworks: Serve as a servant leader to ensure that the team is aligned with the project goals within the context of an established healthcare application. Focus on maintaining organization, tracking progress, and emphasizing the team’s commitment to supporting key functionalities such as ID cards, benefits plan selection, and accurate membership information.

Guidance in Agile and Scrum Practices for Established Processes: Provide guidance to teams in following Agile and Scrum best practices, specifically tailored to the maintenance and optimization of existing healthcare applications. Ensure efficient project management without disrupting current workflows.

Facilitating Scrum Framework to Support Existing Systems: Facilitate various aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, all while focusing on enhancing and maintaining the current functionalities of the healthcare application, such as insurance provider interactions and benefits attachment.

Project Development Lifecycle Focused on Maintenance and Enhancement: Apply expertise in the project development lifecycle to estimate, plan, monitor, track, and report on ongoing maintenance and incremental enhancements within the healthcare application. Ensure that all activities support the established goals and processes.

Agile Coaching and Training for Optimizing Existing Processes: Coach teams on Agile methodologies and provide training to foster a positive Agile mindset, with a focus on optimizing and enhancing the current application’s functionalities without major transformations.

Risk Management in a Stable Environment: Identify potential risks to the success of the healthcare application and devise effective mitigation plans that support ongoing operations and ensure the stability of existing features.

Cross-Team Collaboration for Established Application Support: Collaborate effectively with multiple Scrum teams, both locally and offshore, as well as with teams beyond engineering, to resolve issues related to the healthcare application. Focus on finding solutions that enhance existing functionalities like ID management and benefits coordination.

Resource and Change Management within Current Scope: Act as a primary resource for engineering teams, providing task clarity, gathering missing assets or requirements, and managing project changes within the scope of the established healthcare application. Ensure that all changes align with the existing processes and objectives.

Impediment Resolution to Maintain Application Performance: Skillfully identify, escalate, and remove impediments that hinder the progress of maintaining or enhancing the healthcare application. Focus on ensuring the uninterrupted performance of critical functions like benefits selection and membership data accuracy.

Stakeholder Collaboration for Existing Process Enhancement: Collaborate closely with product owners, team members, technologists, and other Scrum Masters to define solutions that drive the advancement of the healthcare application’s existing processes. Ensure that stakeholder needs are met within the current operational framework.

Effective Communication on Work Product and Risks: Work alongside product owners and project managers to communicate the delivery of work products from teams. Effectively escalate key risks and issues that could impact the efficiency of the Scrum team in supporting and enhancing the existing healthcare application.

As a Scrum Master and Project Manager, I have successfully led agile teams in the development and enhancement of healthcare applications for leading pharmaceutical companies, including Stada, Merck, and Zeiss. My role involved maintaining and optimizing complex applications, such as those managing patient data, benefits selection, and compliance information. I ensured seamless operations by facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and implement incremental improvements. My focus was on sustaining and enhancing existing processes and systems, aligning with the specific needs of the healthcare sector, and ensuring that all project goals were met without disrupting established workflows.