Olubukola Jinadu
Arlington,TX
Summary
Driven Scrum Master with a proven track record at LPX Consulting, enhancing team efficiency through Agile and Scrum methodologies. Expert in Agile Coaching and Sprint Planning, I significantly improved project delivery and team dynamics. Skilled in fostering collaboration and driving progress, my leadership ensures projects meet ambitious goals while promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
LPX Consulting
01.2019 - Current
- Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
- Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment
JNR Scrum Master/Process Improvement Analyst
ODX Global
03.2016 - 12.2018
- Exhibit behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader through mindset; helps the team embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe principles and implement SAFe practices
- Support the team rules of Scrum, eliminate impediments, and lead the team in efforts for relentless improvement and heightened efficiency
- Understand basics of Data Engineering work and contexts of the data product development, accordingly customize the approach/process/artifacts to meet the delivery need of the team
- Ensure team commits sprint goals using capacity effectively and meet sprint and overall PI goals
- Also facilitate team to achieve the goals
- Ensure that goals, scope and product backlog items are understood and can be fulfilled by team members
- Engage with team and train in planning and delivery
- Collaborate with Product Owner, requirement owners and team to identify and clarify scope of business/systems requirements and help build healthy backlog for team
- Support the team's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams; represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of engagement opportunities and program effectiveness
- Engage in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review) efficiently and assist removing blockers/impediments
- Facilitate backlog grooming and estimation using Story-Point (SP)
- Ensure work is estimated and tracked using Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Review ADO team board regularly and ensure team updates ADO properly
- Coaches team in scaled agile practices and help team using ADO effectively
- Capture and Analyze metrics and help team for improvement
- Tracking team status of PI and Sprint goals, dependency and risk logs using ADO
- Protect the team from outside interruptions
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
University of Lagos
Akoka, Lagos08.2005
Skills
- Agile Metrics Tracking
- Agile Coaching
- Project Management
- Sprint Planning
- Agile Best Practices
- Scrum Framework Expertise
- Risk Identification
- Kanban Knowledge
- Backlog Grooming
- User Story Creation
- Retrospective Analysis
- Scrum Methodology
- Risk Management
- Waterfall methodology
- Scope development
Certification
- SAFe 6.0; Implementing Agility at Enterprise Level, Scale Agile-Scaled Agile Framework
- PSM1; Agile Practitioner, Scrum.org - Scrum.org
Timeline
Scrum Master
LPX Consulting
01.2019 - Current
JNR Scrum Master/Process Improvement Analyst
ODX Global
03.2016 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
University of Lagos