Esther Dada

Project: MADAPI ATOS/MTN Agile/DevOps Digital transformation programs

Key Achievements

• Facilitated team collaboration, ensuring product quality and greater focus on test automation, resulting in a dramatic reduction of defects found postproduction.
• Organized and improved agile practices and values which increased productivity and overall team happiness.
• Made use of Kanban Principles that reduced the cycle time by 20% which increased the team's throughput in less than 9 weeks.

Main Responsibilities

• Contribute to the successful delivery of multiple projects as a achieving set goals within budgets and timeline.
• Maintains and prioritizes the product backlog.
• Track projects against the scheduled objectives and take correctives or preventive actions to address deviations.
• Monitor and track status of iterations/releases and ensure work progress visualization on the scrum board.
• Onboard the Feature Development Cycle with proper kick Off, feature backlog with clear sprint plan while ensuring the observance of DoR (Definition of Ready) and DoD (Definition of Done).
• Serves as the intermediary between Delivery team, Change Management and LOB operations
• Collaborated with IT Managers, Business Analysts other Scrum Masters in identifying inter- team dependencies to remove impediments/blockers, increase productivity and improve agility across all teams.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to IT managers.
• Work directly with other product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories.
• Leveraged product roadmap to help forecast the resources, deliverables, product goals using reliable data and team commitments, to maximize the Product Owner’s productivity.
• Track and refine plans and initiatives per delivery execution Issues, Risks and Dependencies.
• Help the program owner and initiative manager by managing projects and budgets on monthly basis
• Assist to clarify requirements, resolve conflicting priorities, removed impediments, and built quality processes.

• Organized and facilitated scrum events and meetings, promoting Agile best practices and collaboration.
• Assisted Product Owners with backlog prioritization, requirements gathering, and grooming, optimizing sprint planning efficiency.
• Teach and Coach the team and organization in Agile theories and software engineering techniques.
• Utilized JIRA, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint for end-to-end Agile project management.
• Collaborated with the scrum team to define user stories and story points using planning poker.
• Tracked team progress and velocity through various charts and reports, promoting transparency.
• Collaborated with the team to establish criteria for Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
• Removed impediments and coached teams on Agile principles, fostering process improvements.
• Implemented Kanban methodology for the helpdesk department using ServiceNow software.

• Responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing software projects to achieve total clients’ satisfaction.
• Tracking and reporting on the status of projects to stakeholders.
• Ensured that all elements of the project were executed accurately and within budget.
• Identified risks and roadblocks that may hinder project deliverables.
• Establishing milestones, anticipating issues, and monitoring adherence to project scope, schedules, and requirements.
• Managed all elements of each project such as scope, budget, resource, technology utilization, communications, and training