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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 Worked with stakeholders to develop best practices, policies, and process that support project goals. Prepared and monitored risk/ issues for project including managing the strategy and roadmap.  Prepared cost benefit analysis for project and Lead the team in using Agile and scrum practices. Resolve conflicts and issues that occur and removing impediments that may hinder the scrum team. Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity and increasing productivity. Track and report metrics and build strong relationships with stakeholders and product owners. Created plans, status report, defining resource requirements, timelines, and other related tasks.  Building and sustaining the day-to-day relationships and communications. Project briefings with stakeholders at various levels of the organization. Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and product backlog items amongst the team. Tracked project milestones and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.  Prepared weekly status updates for project executive team and maintained RAID log.  Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, Gemba Walk, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented.  Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement. Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.  Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style to lead by example.  Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches. Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress. Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone. Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating. Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.  Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices Successfully helping Scrum team transition from waterfall into scrum framework.