Raphael M Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, NC, United States

• Working closely with the team and other Scrum Masters (Scrum of Scrums) to maintain focus on both the product and the scrum process and help the team become more cross-functional, self-organized and Self-managed.
• Promoting change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk.
• Coach scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk.
• Ensuring Scrum practices, theories, and techniques are understood, enacted, and followed.
• Guiding and empowering delivery teams to self-organize, within constraints of Scrum and project goals.
• Shielding the team from unnecessary interruptions to enable them to focus on most valuable work.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Administered training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.
• Used empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Partnered with the product owner, especially with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog.
• Proactively addressed systemic impediments to team agility and guided the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
• Coach scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk.
• Facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for scrum teams.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI)
• Highly skilled in leading the exploration, analysis, and synthesis of issues affecting the performance of value streams and business processes.
• Formed, trained, and nurture the new scrum team to understand the agile process by preparing the Team on story estimation sequence, Jira board usage, Scrum Ceremonies, deployment, Testing, and repository usage
• Led Scrum of Scrum and created a dashboard to document impediments and improve collaboration with other scrum teams.
• Facilitated Analysis of the current state of operations, the discovery of a shared vision for success based on culture and values with leadership teams, and planning of business and technical solutions required to meet.
• Created a knowledge transfer template using confluence for team members leaving and new team members joining the Team

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

• Worked with the Business Owners and the product Owners developing the Product Vision and the product road map and to define business values.
• Meticulously work with architect, product owner, business analyst and developers to write User Stories that meet the INVEST Principles and MoSCoW models.
• Owned full alignment across dependent teams within a Release Train; managed risks and dependencies such that all parties were aligned with delivery strategy and sequence. Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure.
• Planned and Conducted the Sprint planning and assisting team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Worked with the Team, Product owner, Business Owner, or other involved teams in the organization to resolve any impediments or constraints and maintain the productivity of the scrum teams.
• Worked closely with the team and other Scrum Masters (Scrum of Scrums) to maintain focus on both the product and the scrum process and help the team become more cross-functional, self-organized and Self-managed.