Project Manager | Scrum Master
CurrentEstablished objectives and managed IT Agile team members in the execution of concurrentprojects while adhering to best practices. Led and mentored a cross-functional Scrum team of 8developers, resulting in a 30% increase in productivity and a 25% reduction in delivery time.● Facilitated all Scrum meetings including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, and sprintretrospectives.● Worked with the product owner and scrum team to maintain a healthy product backlog byfacilitating scheduled backlog refinement meetings.● Worked effectively with multiple scrum teams both internally and off-shore using variouscommunication platforms including Skype for business and Microsoft Teams.● Act as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on thetimely delivery of software.● Assessed each scrum team member’s responsibilities by ensuring that their capacity wasaccounted for at the start of the sprint and delegated tasks to balance each employee’s workloadbased on the team’s velocity. ● Ensured the Team was well informed on internal and external initiatives and activities byfacilitating meetings with justifiable outcomes.● Keeping external stakeholders, collaborators and other interested parties well informed on teamprogress and activities.● Coach and mentor other scrum masters and product owners around Agile methodologies anddevelop training plans.● Started an Agile center of practice (ACoP) within the organization for sharing and learning Agilevalues.● Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources, and established schedules meetingor exceeding project demands.
