Scrum Master
Current• Strong negotiation and influencing skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.• Familiarity with the use of Rally, JIRA, and other Agile tools. • Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills and assisting Product Owner in writing user stories, prioritize Product Backlog Items (PBI) and facilitating meeting between Scrum team, product Owner• Excellent interpersonal abilities, Communication skills, time management and team skills.• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement. • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel. • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity. • Supported RTE by providing accurate data quality of Dashboards for Draft plans, which includes Team Objectives, Features, Capacity and Load for all iterations and Metrics as requested.• Coached the Agile Release Train on Agile practices, prepared the team by driving transparency of process, coaching them on expectations for PI Planning, and ensuring the team took proactive steps toward PI Preparation.• Participated and contributed to various Agile Communities of Practice and Scrum of Scrums for dependency resolutions and impediment escalations.• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress. Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams. • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes. • Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track. Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
