Malaika K Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

• Serving as the Agile Team Coach for 2 teams, facilitating key events like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning sessions. Helps teams maintain alignment with one another and ensures smooth collaboration. Provides coaching to Product Owners, helping them implement effective product management practices to enhance team performance.• Leading team competency and health assessments to promote collaboration, helping teams identify tailored growth and development paths. Plays a key role in training, mentoring, and coaching teams, fostering the adoption of new skills and competencies that elevate their overall performance and capabilities.• Empowering teams to take ownership of staying focused on quarterly objectives, sprint goals, quality, and delivering value consistently. Supports teams in adopting practices that foster psychological safety and create a "safe to fail" environment where innovation and learning thrive.• Leveraging advanced facilitation skills to tailor the agendas of agile ceremonies, ensuring they meet the specific needs of the team while still achieving both required and desired outcomes. • Proactively identifying impediments and appropriately resolving or escalating using network of peers and formal channels. Serving as the representative in multi-team events like scrum of scrums. Supporting the team by facilitating conflict resolution and promoting a collaborative environment. • Empowering teams to align their performance metrics with their desired goals, ensuring they can effectively track, analyze, and act on those metrics. Motivating teams to regularly reflect on their performance, driving continuous improvement and progress toward their objectives. Supporting the team in fostering growth and developing t-shaped skills, promoting versatility and collaboration.

Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States

• Supporting development team in the adoption of Agile Software Development to improve time-to-market, reduce defect count by 40% and decrease backlog size by 60%• Facilitating team conflict resolution by ensuring reflection of agile and scrum values towards achieving self-organizing and high performance.• Working with product owner to keep product backlog healthy, relevant, and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing leading to a 35% increase in commitment/reliability statistic. • Empowering, encouraging, and mentoring agile team by shielding them as required to demonstrate trust and safe surroundings for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestones delivery, resulting in 33% increase in employee retention. • Establishing a cross-functional, collaborative, supporting, environment leading to an increase in high quality value delivered to customers from 40% to 70%.• Organizing and improving Agile best practices and values resulting in increase in productivity and overall team satisfaction by an average of 20%.• Creating and maintaining measurable metrics including burn-down chart, velocity, and release forecasting to help track the progress of agile development teams which led to an increase in value deliver from 60% to 90%.• Identifying and removing organization and team impediments resulting in an improved efficiency of 15%.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Guided the teams on how to implement and use Agile frameworks, practices and tracking epic, features and stories using JIRA which reduced the time to create and manage tickets by 30%.• Built an environment of trust in the team where people feel comfortable giving their perspective or providing feedback.• Removed 50+ obstacles and managed risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.• Monitored and reported on team’s capacity, utilized to assist teams in sprint planning.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Gathered and updated project materials, completing budget, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lesson learned document.• Scheduled and provided work advice and guidance. Resolved problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.• Developed an excel macro and standardized reporting templates, resulting in efficient data collection and a 34% reduction in turnaround time.