Being an advocate for seeing and understanding Agile, not only as a set of tools and practices but as a vehicle in achieving a goal of ‘better’.
I am a highly dedicated and proactive agile scrum master with over 5+ years of significant experience, gained within the telecom and IT industry. I have helped different organisations in facilitating agile practices, in the delivery of enterprise applications through multiple release cycles. I am exceptionally delivery-focused and have a track record in defining strategies using technology to achieve business outcomes, as well as taking pride in being able to deliver complex management projects efficiently, effectively, and on schedule.
Responsible for driving the successful delivery of digital products and services across the organisation, managing the product backlog, removing blockers and ultimately delivering value to the organisation.
Facilitating planning and alignment in a transparent, collaborative manner (within and across teams); leading team engagement, performance and agile capability uplift; and helping teams progress their goals by using key metrics to inform decision-making, improve efficiency & effectiveness of performance, managing escalations and reinforcing a culture of continuous improvement.
Building trust, managing team/squad dynamics and motivating people – full support wrap-around the team and managing external team dependencies.
Agile Frameworks: Demonstrated understanding of the principles, components and features of Agile frameworks, with a continuous learning approach to new concepts and best practices.
Coaching with a strong leadership philosophy.
Helping remove impediments and fostering and empowering an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
Responsible for leading teams in a customer-focused organization. Being an active leader in agile/scrum practices within a very collaborative work environment at Enterprise.
Using Agile Practices, and a variety of methods, facilitate daily standups, mid-sprint reviews, host creative sprint retrospectives, plus activities related to estimating work and refining the strategic product backlog.
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
Delivering towards the strategic product roadmap, build/mould autonomous teams and driving actions through inspect/adapt sessions.
Facilitating coordination activities between scrum team and other project area stakeholders.
Relentlessly executing servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Leveraging tools, such as JIRA, to run a healthy team utilizing capacity planning, burndown charts, velocity tracking, effective team & executive dashboards.
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the strategic product backlog.
Research & Development team supports the business through improving delivery, certainty and productivity, and advancing our reputation as leaders for innovation and engineering excellence.
Guiding teams and organisations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.
Facilitate reviews, retrospectives, daily stand ups and planning meetings.
Supporting and educate the Product Owner, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog.
Supporting the scrum team and stakeholders in dealing with blockers and impediments.
Promote a safe, trusting, and open environment for the teams.
Ability to inspire and coach teams with varying levels of Agile experience and maturity.
Supporting to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
Facilitating of all Scrum ceremonies i.e., backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and the daily stand-up (including demos/showcases).
Responsible for delivery, managing the efficient flow of work through the teams and identification of risks, issues & dependencies.
Ability to coach and mentor Agile principles & practices, and how to deliver valuable outcomes within the development teams and the organisation.
Challenging and improving the operation of the team, driving their performance and capability to succeed.