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, security, and development requirements were met.•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, security, and development requirements are met.•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.•Ensuring the delivery team keeps their work and impediments to work visible.•Working with the Team, Product Owner, Business Owner, Management, or other involved teams in the organization to resolve any impediments or constraints and maintain the productivity of the scrum teams.• Coaching teams to adopt continues integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes.•Facilitating team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations etc.) for purposes of idea generation, planning, retrospection, problem-solving, and alignment.•Working with the Product Owner and facilitating development of product backlog.•Working in conjunction with the Project Manager to ensure project management needs are met or impediments, issues and/or risks are resolved or escalated.•Communicating project status to the team and product owner to ensure common

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, security, and development requirements were met.• Facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for scrum teams. • Working with technical team as part of grooming to understand technical challenges and facilitate the negotiation discussion between Dev team and PO.• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management• Conducted Sprint retrospectives and the inspect and adapt workshops.

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 complex and evolving business needs.• Created a knowledge transfer template using confluence for team members leaving and new team members joining the Team• Created a work-take form to document requirements and correctly solve the issues of undefined requirements.• Review Teams DoR and DoD to determine the processes of accepting stories and completing stories• Manage and oversight all QA/UAT environments, and coordinated releases schedule with Business, Scrum Teams, and Customers • Formalized the project management process with standardized tools, reporting framework, and methodology that enabled Organization to transition fully into Agile • Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating/ ‘grooming' product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria.• Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test driven development (TDD), continuous integration).

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 a shared understanding of dependencies.• 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.• Leveraged technical, business, and financial expertise to communicate effectively with the business owners and leadership teams.• Facilitated the implementation of the Agile methodology to the teams, stakeholders and enterprise that led to the increase of ROI saving 30% of the project cost (triple constraint)• Meticulously work with architect, product owner, business analyst and developers to write User Stories that meet the INVEST and MoSCoW models.• Highly experienced in the use of Agile tools: Jira, Jira Align, Rally, Confluence, TFS, DevOps, and Microsoft Suite (MS Project, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, MS Word) to track software development, communicate with team, and generate data related to team performance (velocity and burndown chart).• Influence IT and business leadership and management teams on Agile principles, practices, and tools.