Darryl Watson Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Woonsocket, RI, US

• Organizes daily standup meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospective, release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings with Scrum teams, Delivery Service Partners (DSP) and stakeholders.
• Ensures that each of the User Stories are well defined and contain the Who, What and Why and meet the INVEST criteria before team estimations during the product backlog refinement sessions.
• Acts as liaison between the Product Owner and team members for transfer of information.
• Utilizes key Scrum metrics such as Burndown, Burnup, and Velocity charts to help deliver committed work.
• Instills safeguards in place that prevent overcommitment and disruption during sprints.
• Establishes an open and trustworthy environment, which fosters a focus on delivery and enables continuous improvement of effective products.

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked with Product Owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and product increment to help communicate team successes, deliverables and timelines.
• Worked with the development team and Product Owner to maintain a prioritized and prepared backlog, plan upcoming releases, and assist the team in drafting acceptance criteria and test plans.
• Led the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.
• Produced and maintained team documents to ensure visibility for clear communication and workflow on the team.
• Reintroduced sizing to teams to create accurate estimation practices during planning and refinement.
• Maintained team focus and morale through effective conflict resolution techniques.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Coordinated a cross-functional development team employing the principles and tools of the Scrum Framework.
• Improved development teams’ participation in daily scrums from 75% to 100% within my first month with the company.
• Scheduled, coordinated, and successfully completed several backlog refinement sessions.
• Ensured the transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down and communicated teams’ overall progress by tracking burndown metrics, velocity and productivity.
• Intercepted and removed impediments, by checking in with the development team at least once a day and observed team members’ behavior and interactions during meetings.
• Worked with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners/Managers to identify and resolve dependencies between the teams during Scrums of Scrum (SOS) meetings.