OKONMAH EMEKA FRANCIS

• Actively identify, manage, communicate, and remove impediments to expedite resolution in a cross-functional work environment
• Implements consistent processes and tools and identify emerging best practices and issues to help continuously advance agile methods and practices
• Utilize Kanban and Jira toolset for tracking events
• Kanban, to improve WIP performance by setting limits as well as providing reporting transparency with the use of forecasting and metrics
• Burn down charts, Burn up charts, Velocity, Defect Leakage, and Scope Change
• Facilitate Scrum Events (ceremonies), sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives within teams
• Fosters close cooperation between all team members; encourages cross-training and team support
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership, clear impediments for the team
• Experienced in the use of different SDLC methodologies such as Agile, waterfall and RUP model and use of JIRA, ALM, and Confluence.

Used the pillars of scrum (transparency/inspection/adaptation), agile values and principles to facilitate SDLC

• Provided guidance to the team to ensure alignment with Scrum guidelines while motivating and protecting them from distractions
• Collaborated with stakeholders to manage competing priorities while protecting the team
• Frequently collaborated with product owner and developer for quality assurance of deliverables
• Identified opportunities to optimize Scrum and Kanban roles, events, and artifacts
• Involved in identifying problem definition as part of continuous process improvement using Define, Measure, Analyze and Improve to support the business continuity of the organization
• Facilitated conversations within the team, stakeholders, and the organization to achieve specific outcomes.