Desiree Wright Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

• Facilitated and coached development team as a servant-leader in implementing Scrum and Agile concepts and principles.• Served as the voice of transparency, inspection, and adaptation in an iterative development environment.• Led scrum teams under one product backlog to achieve improvements in team velocity and delivery of backlog items.• Communicated and collaborated with product owners, upper management, and stakeholders.• Tracked, escalated, and removed impediments.• Created metrics to provide the development teams and other stakeholders with feedback.• Trained and coached teams into using KanBan boards to manage idle time.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

• Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.• Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.• facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives• Managed impediment backlog and motivated team members to identify necessary action• Initiated product backlog and developed user stories with clear acceptance criteria• Held retrospective meetings to guide cross functional teams improving future sprints for success• Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while product owner was absent• Worked with stakeholders and product owner developing release plans• Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cycles• Led daily scrums and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.

Us

• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics• Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos and daily work.• Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team• Assisted product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and grooming.• Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.• Acted as Scrum of Scrum master, coordinating four distributed teams all working on the same product.• Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.• Responsible for coordinating bi-monthly release of software, including planning and quality assurance.• Provided recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.• Facilitated daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint planning, and sprint retrospective meetings.• Empowered and assured the team is productive and functional.• Removed barriers or impediments.• Reported team velocity and sprint progress.• motivated team members

Washington, Dc, Us

• Implemented and maintained Agile/Scrum framework within the organization• Managed/oversaw multiple software development teams for our PPC products• Lead teams to meet aggressive software development goals and deadlines• Advised management on projects to ensure best decisions were taken• Maintained continuous alignment of project scope through tough environments• Created detailed reports and reported directly to the CEO on a bi-weekly basis• Trained and coached new team members in the Scrum process• Facilitated Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, & Sprint Retrospectives• Supported the Product Owners with updating and grooming the product backlog• Tracked and made visible the Teams' progress, Velocity, Burn down charts and other metrics and Information Radiators on an ongoing basis• Familiar with Agile Scrum tools (JIRA, VersionOne)