Ibiene Selema Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

- Coaching Agile teams to significantly improve their Scrum and Kanban ways of working, resulting in a tangible increase in velocity and throughput. - Remotely servant-leading and Agile coaching globally dispersed teams to deliver and deploy iterative increments. - Servant leading across multiple Scrum and Kanban teams to ensure the successful delivery of multiple campaigns and initiatives. - Coaching the Team to continuously self-improve and to introspect on what can be done even better from sprint to sprint, whilst making sure that team health is paramount at all times. - Participating in a cross-departmental Agile Community of Practice to regularly share our understanding of Agile Ways of Working. Scrum Teams that I coached received unanimous ‘Outstanding’ ratings in feedback from stakeholders in quarterly and annual reviews. - Facilitating Scrum ceremonies including Daily Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Stakeholder Reviews, and Team Retrospectives; as well as Coaching and overseeing best practice usage of the Scrum artifacts, ensuring inspection, adaptation, and transparency. - Collaborated with the Product Owner to prioritize Product and Sprint Backlogs in Jira – and coaching on how to properly craft User Stories. Ensuring that the team is engaged with the Product Vision. - Establishing stakeholder story mapping sessions. Evolving the definitions of Ready and Done. Partnering with DevOps on release planning. - Executive briefing and reporting on scrum metrics, burn-up, and process improvements periodically to non-technical attendees. - Optimized Product Backlog Reviews allowing more quality conversations about upcoming backlog items that in turn stabilized sprint forecast and velocity. - Worked with the Product Owner and the Development Team to establish a delivery rhythm, ensure common priorities, manage dependencies, and remove blockers and impediments.

- Organizing and facilitating Scrum ceremonies for multiple scrum teams.- Proactively identifying, analyzing, and resolving potential impediments that could impact the successful delivery of projects and devising and driving contingency plans to minimize risks.- Working closely with product owners in backlog management and ensuring teams have visibility of product pipelines and goals, empowering them to contribute in the planning and scheduling of products, further enabling continuous delivery.

- Created great outcomes and products that delighted our clients and gave them a fantastic digital experience. - Created an environment that moved teams toward high-performing teams. - Ensured the team remained focused on what our clients were telling us and helped drive innovation across the product. - Coached the Agile team in applying Lean Agile and Scrum to achieve business value. - Facilitated Agile team ceremonies & practices. - Worked to remove impediments and blockers for the team. - Coached stakeholders in expectations from Lean Agile and Scrum Framework. - Ensured key stakeholders were active in relevant ceremonies. - Ensured the goals, scope, and product domain were understood by everyone within the team. - Utilized techniques for effective backlog management, including the creation of clear user journeys. - Worked with the Product Owner, Business Analysts , and teams to ensure the backlog was current and prioritized.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Worked collaboratively with the technology team to ensure the agile process can maintain pace and quality and advise developers where appropriate.- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deliveries simultaneously.- Thorough understanding of iterative development, incremental delivery, and software development processes/lifecycle.- Identifying, logging, and recording clear descriptions of issues into tools such as Jira for defect tracking and google sheets.- Using retrospective and sprint planning sessions to reflect with the team on the past sprint and plan the next two-week sprint.- Educate and engage other team members in testing to improve the velocity of the squad.- Writing manual test scenarios criteria for many stories, regularly reviewing past scenarios for validity.- Liaising with the product owner regarding testing strategies, prioritization of tickets, and test execution.- Interacting with developers and other testers regarding raising, recording, and resolving defects.- Work in an agile, swift development environment where effective communication is paramount.- Inspire and motivate the squad to be passionate about quality.