Dare Olabode, Msc, Csm, Ssm Email and Phone Number

• Facilitates scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective) and other agile activities (backlog refinement, release planning, story writing workshop, project kickoff meeting).• Facilitates and assists with product backlog prioritization using the Moscow technique• Collaborates with the Product Owner on Artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and product increment). Assists with product backlog prioritization using the Moscow technique• Collaborate with other scrum masters in the organization to promote transformation, knowledge sharing and discussion of identified organizational impediments.• Facilitates the decomposition of roadmap item actions into epics, develops user stories using the INVEST criteria and creates tasks with team members using the SMART technique• Ensures clarity of working agreements and keeps the team constantly on track during the sprints, ensures the team practices core agile principles of collaboration, prioritizing, team accountability and visibility to meet sprint/release goals. • Implements Agile practices within the teams to improve business outcomes; provide more transparency and value while delivering potentially releasable product increment s every 2 weeks.• Facilitates Scrum of Scrums and engage with other scrum masters within the organization to promote transformation, knowledge sharing and discussion of identified organizational impediments.• Coordinates with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers and stakeholders across value stream to understand progress, identify and resolve impediments and risks that may impact successful delivery of the product.• Uncovers impediments and use impediments resolution processes to provide visibility and track impediments resolution at the multi-team level.

• Coached and mentored cross functional teams to become self-organized and highly efficient. Fostered a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation by promoting healthy conflict and strong team agreement• Facilitated scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint review) and other agile activities (backlog refinement, release planning, story writing workshop, project kickoff meeting).• Proactively identified and removed impediments, risks and blockers to the team’s and project’s progress. • Ensured clarity of working agreements and ensured team is focused on meeting the sprint goal. • Facilitated internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity, sprint / release progress to the team and stakeholders.• Worked with the product owner and the team to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery with the lean process, applied scrum master experience within the team to implement solutions using an iterative approach.• Coached the scrum team on self-organizing and self-management, and the art of writing effective user stories.• Worked closely with product owners in prioritizing and refining the product • Coached the team on story estimation techniques (planning poker and T shirt sizing). • Fostered close collaboration across all team members, encouraged cross-training / knowledge sharing and support amongst team members through design sessions, pair programming, code review to increase the spirit of cross-functionality. • Interfaced with Agile team, stakeholders, Product Owners, and Scrum Master's to improve performance, communication, and transparency.• Ensured customer’s feedback and expectations for quality products are incorporated and prioritized in the product backlog.

• Led a team of associates in planning, managing, and overseeing end-to-end delivery of client projects, achieving a 99% weekly delivery goal.• Hired, trained, and developed a cross-functional team of 50 associates. Achieved on time and on budget delivery maintaining a steady operational performance. Coached and mentored the team, ensured impediments to success were removed and potential conflicts resolved.• Designed work packages, allocated resources to dedicated client’s accounts, managed resources to constantly ensure that set benchmarks are met.• Oversaw daily logistics, courier, and delivery manifests. Managed the daily throughput, identifying potential peaks and troughs and implementing resource levelling strategies. Assigned team members achieve delivery metrics and ensured demand is efficiently fulfilled.• Conducted weekly review sessions with key stakeholders, providing a clear update on progress. Identified and documented risks related to outcomes and facilitated a mitigation plan ensuring effective turnaround are in place.• Collected and analyzed feedback from clients. Presented management information reports to stakeholders, identifying opportunities for growth, pain points and areas of improvement.

• Planned and implemented $100M enterprise resource planning (ERP) project by organizing work processes and delivering project according to agreed scope, time, budget, and quality standards.• Developed project plan, and created project charter, scope statement, schedule, and project requirements.• Provided regular project updates, managed project schedules and documents, and prepared project presentations to top management, ensuring compliance with government standards and regulations.• Followed established project management methodology to ensure project delivery, framework, tasks, activities, and deliverable are represented and accounted for in project plans and timelines.• Established clear ownership for project tasks and a clear schedule for when each task had to be performed. • Communicated effectively with all major stakeholders, resulting in increased understanding, ownership, and accomplishment of project goal to be on time and on schedule.• Facilitated organizational learning and process adoption to realize business objectives and outcomes and supported business development initiatives