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Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

United States

Facilitate key Agile ceremonies, including daily stand up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos and sprint retrospectives.Create and maintain the appropriate channels for open communication within the scrum team to create a trusting and safe team environment.Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.Protect the team from outside distractions.Remove obstacles in order to continue to deliver a quality product.Assist the scrum team to become a self-organized, cross-functional and highly efficient team that delivers high-quality products.Facilitate documenting and executing the team's continuous improvement plan, based on retrospectives. Clarify deliverables and assignments and remove impediments.Provide leadership with metrics necessary to make decisions.Determine ways to improve throughput, velocity and allow the team flexibility to self-manage themselves especially on items identified from the retrospective.Partner with IT technical staff and Business Sponsor to ensure the design accomplishes both business and technical requirements.Manages Issues, Risk, Dependencies and Change Request

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Coordinated Release Planning activities and Daily Stand ups, as well as lead Sprint Planning and Backlog.Experienced in the utilization of ServiceNow for Releases.Coordinated in resolving issues, addressing risks; escalating concerns, and facilitating decision-making.Responsible for creating and maintaining forms, reports, views, workflows and roles using service now application.Helped teams to deliver an end-to-end increment of working software and establish expectations to ensure deadlines are clearly communicated, understood, and executed for maintenance and enhancement of backlogs.Utilized knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and user stories to ensure sprints are successfully planned.Lead the teams to develop moderately complex script, workflows and integrations to create custom application in ServiceNow.Fostered a collaborative and communicative environment with product owners, stakeholders, business partners and other development teams.Coached the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum tools.Established and utilized a comprehensive project plan to monitor and report project deliverables.Maintained a positive relationship with the Product Owner and ensured the team maintained a healthy backlog.

Westlake, Texas

Conducted/facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Grooming, Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives.Participated and lead all phases of the product development lifecycle, including analysis, design, testing, and integration.Utilized Clarity and JIRA to track the progress of the team.Ensured the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, visibility, and cross-functional coordination.Developed and implemented key metrics to measure/report the progress and value of the project.Nurtured an environment where project issues can be raised without any fear of blame or being judged. Delivered consistent and quality mentoring, training, and onboarding for teams of contractors and staff members.Facilitated communication among multiple stakeholders and provide timely updates on the projects