Barbara Bellis Email & Phone Number

Newark, Tx, Us

Texas, United States

United States

Facilitate Daily Stand up, team retrospectives, Sprint Reviews and Sprint planning sessions for multiple teams.• Maintain Scrum and/or Kanban Sprint metric charts and reports. • Assure all documented requirements and acceptance test criteria are transparent to the whole team.• Shield the teams from interruptions during the committed sprints and Iterations. • Facilitate the removal of obstacles that affect the teams and encourage collaboration between the Kanban/Scrum teams and Product Owners, as well as Business Subject Matter Experts.• Facilitate collaboration with developers and business users and drive requirement clarifications via standard techniques such as lean driven task/workflow analysis. • Identify epics and features, broke down epics and features into stories with acceptance test criteria to help drive deliveries.• Partner with Product Owners to elicit and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, scenarios, and workflows.• Validate business and systems requirements have clarity and evaluated through development of acceptance test criteria.

Fort Worth, Texas

Facilitated Daily Stand up, team retrospectives, Sprint Reviews and Sprint planning sessions for multiple teams.• Supported Agile Coaches in training for Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Agile Kanban and SAFe (PI).• Maintained Scrum and/or Kanban Sprint metric charts and report and assured all documented requirements and acceptance test criteria are transparent to the whole team.• Shielded the teams from interruptions during the committed sprints and Iterations.• Facilitated the removal of obstacles that affect teams productivity and encouraged collaboration between the Kanban/Scrum teams and Product Owners, as well as Business Subject Matter Experts.• Ensured collaboration with developers and business users and drove requirement clarifications via standard techniques such as lean driven task/workflow analysis. • Identified epics and features, broke down epics and features into stories with acceptance test criteria to aid in driving deliveries.• Assisted Product Owners to elicit and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, scenarios, and workflows.• Validated business and systems requirements have clarity and evaluated through development of acceptance test criteria.

Westlake, Tx

Facilitated Daily Stand up, team retrospectives, Sprint Reviews and Sprint planning sessions. Maintained Scrum metric charts and reports.• Protected teams from interruptions during the committed sprints.• Facilitated the removal of obstacles affecting teams and encouraged collaboration between the Scrum team, Product Owner, and Business Subject Matter Experts.• Facilitated collaboration with developers and business users to drive requirement clarifications via standard techniques such as lean driven task/workflow analysis. • Elicited and documented requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.

Westlake, Tx

Provided business and systems analysis support for projects collaborating with customers and developers to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of issues in terms of business/systems requirements and processes.• Collaborated with developers and customers during agile projects.• Facilitated and drove requirements clarification via standard techniques such as lean driven task/workflow analysis to identify epics and breakdown epics into stories with acceptance test criteria to drive iterations• Assured all documented requirements and acceptance test criteria are transparent to the whole team.• Elicited and documented requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.• Conducted systems analysis to determine data needs and technical recommendations.• Led the application testing process, verification that business and systems requirements were achieved, development of acceptance test criteria, and validation of results.• Led the execution of all test cases and shared the test results and trends.• Assisted Agile Coach in creation of Agile Self Training Modules for Level 1 training.

Scrum Master for the Claims Agile Team working on the development of the Claims Software SystemsScrum Master for the Marketing Agile Team working on the development of the Rate Illustration Software Systems and the Agent Website• Facilitate the Scrum, remove impediments of the team to deliver the sprint goal/deliverables, act as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences• Ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended, maintain processes in lieu of a project manager, enforce rules, protect the team and keep them focused on the tasks at hand • Utilize Release planning; backlog grooming; story writing and burn downs.• Serve on the Scrum Master affinity group• Translate business needs into data analysis and reporting solutions • Experience working with creation of Automated testing• Experience working with Agile team members both locally as well as working with team members in a virtual environment• Communicate technical, strategic planning, and research to further understand business needs and capability of current technology • Received Star Performer Award in May 2008

Served as Project Manager for Illustration Software Systems• Worked on business requirement specifications for Claims Department Software• Translate business needs into data analysis and reporting solutions • Assisted in the Development and initiation of new Testing Criteria changes• Implement tools and applications for accessing and analyzing data • Identify, understand and prioritize new data requirements and requests for access to data • Foster teamwork between technical, clinical and administrative personnel • Communicate technical, strategic planning, and research to further understand business needs and capability of current technology • Received Employee of the Month for April 2004

Project Owner and Testing Owner for Illustration Software Systems• Designed Software requirement specifications for Illustration Software Systems, including synchronizing the rates from mainframe administrative system calculations to distributed Illustration version

Testing of Rate change calculations and implementations. • New Product implementation on administrative system. • Tested Illustration Software Systems and Rate Guides for agents.

Aas, Information Technology Application And Web Development

Activities and Societies: Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

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Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Lambda, UTA (Honors Society)Attended classes at nighttime that included Informational Systems.

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