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Walsall, England, United Kingdom

• Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies including Daily Standups, Iteration Planning, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews and Backlog Refinement• Assisting PO with effective backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing acceptance criteria.• Successfully implemented Agile scrum frameworks for software development teams, allowing for increased efficiency and productivity by 30%.• Coaching Agile teams to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which… Show more • Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies including Daily Standups, Iteration Planning, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews and Backlog Refinement• Assisting PO with effective backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing acceptance criteria.• Successfully implemented Agile scrum frameworks for software development teams, allowing for increased efficiency and productivity by 30%.• Coaching Agile teams to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which meets client goal, and management objectives.• Working with a multi-skilled multi-cultural team (including technical leads, network design engineers, test engineers, implementation engineers and project managers)• Collaborating with stakeholders and business sponsors to proactively identify risks and dependencies for Agile projects, reducing the chance for costly delays and errors.• Providing actionable insight to the agile team during retrospective events to ensure open discussion. Show less

Nigeria

• Facilitated effective and efficient Agile meetings, such as release and sprint planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, and daily scrums.• Adapted and applied agile methodology to how we organized and managed digital projects, including managing backlog(s) and task assignments as appropriate.• Maintained transparency into the team’s work via backlogs, burn-down charts, velocity, and other communications.• Fostered and encouraged sense of empowerment within the teams. Allow them… Show more • Facilitated effective and efficient Agile meetings, such as release and sprint planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, and daily scrums.• Adapted and applied agile methodology to how we organized and managed digital projects, including managing backlog(s) and task assignments as appropriate.• Maintained transparency into the team’s work via backlogs, burn-down charts, velocity, and other communications.• Fostered and encouraged sense of empowerment within the teams. Allow them the freedom to self-organize when needed while still adhering to the principles of Agile.• Lead Scrum adoption across the business and coaching teams to ensure a consistent approach to running projects across the business• Ensured the Scrum teams are protected from external interruptions and working with the Product Owner to manage prioritization/trade-offs and ensure minimal changes to sprint scope.• Monitored Sprint Progress: Keeping an eye on the progress of the ongoing sprint, ensuring that the team is on track to achieve their sprint goals and that the sprint backlog is being completed Show less

Nigeria

• Developed comprehensive project plans, considering scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.• Used Microsoft Project for the Web to create and maintain project schedules, assign tasks, monitor progress, manage dependencies and resources.• Worked closely with the Product team to define project objectives, priorities, and success criteria.• Adapted to work with Agile/Waterfall methodologies based on the nature of the project. • Facilitated project… Show more • Developed comprehensive project plans, considering scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.• Used Microsoft Project for the Web to create and maintain project schedules, assign tasks, monitor progress, manage dependencies and resources.• Worked closely with the Product team to define project objectives, priorities, and success criteria.• Adapted to work with Agile/Waterfall methodologies based on the nature of the project. • Facilitated project meetings such as daily stand-ups and sprint planning while ensuring project documentation is kept up to date. Hold people to account for delivery.• Collaborated with stakeholder to define project requirements, expectations and deliverables including mapping to development sprints and producing resource forecasts for business planning.• Produced and maintained regular reports and logs on project status, risks, and dependencies. Show less

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Regularly update key internal stakeholder on the progress of projects• Ensured projects are correctly scoped and with clear objectives set• Managed projects to cost, quality & time, implementing the framework into each project• Provided & maintained capacity planning & resource tracking tools across the portfolio of projects• Changed Management• Supported Change Lead in applying best practice change management methodologies• Ensured that planning and scoping of… Show more • Regularly update key internal stakeholder on the progress of projects• Ensured projects are correctly scoped and with clear objectives set• Managed projects to cost, quality & time, implementing the framework into each project• Provided & maintained capacity planning & resource tracking tools across the portfolio of projects• Changed Management• Supported Change Lead in applying best practice change management methodologies• Ensured that planning and scoping of projects addresses change management requirements• Continuous Improvement• Established standards for Project Management & Change Management, working alongside the Change Lead to review continuous improvement Show less

International Marketing

Higher National Diploma, Business Administration And Management, Upper Credit

Ordinary National Diploma, Business Administration And Management, Upper Credit