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Basirat Agbaje

Kent

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Personal Profile A dynamic, curious and accomplished Scaled Agile Scrum Master with more than 5 years' experience of delivering ambitious products/projects. Agile Product Development, SAFe implementation, Agile Release Train Servant Leader, Facilitating Flow of Values, Agile/Scrum Coach, Agile Team Development, Coaching, Facilitation and driving business agility are some of my skills. I am passionate about fostering lean agile mindsets. As a Multi-Team (ART) Scrum Master/RTE, I servant- lead an Agile Release Train of 35+ colleagues located across 7 countries to deliver desirable, viable, and sustainable products to our B2B and B2C clients. I have hands-on experience of developing, managing and maturing cross-functional scrum teams throughout the software development life cycle . Objective: Looking for a new challenge in an organisation that is proactively looking to rapidly mature their agile project/product delivery capability. A company desperate to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative Solutions. Hardworking [Job Title] brings proven success in overseeing administrative areas. Knowledgeable about best methods for managing resources, schedules and personnel to achieve objectives. Tech-savvy and always looking for improvement opportunities. 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. Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Instrumental [Job Title] bringing [Number] years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work history

Scrum Master

Darent Valley Hospital
Dartford, Kent
01.2019 - Current
  • Outside distractions
  • Facilitating discussions, decision making and conflict resolutions amongst development teams on their journey to becoming high performing
  • Developed a community of transformation champions to sustain focus and drive continuous improvement
  • Develop team togetherness and an atmosphere that allows for constructive feedback and challenge that promotes continuous improvement, Exceptional leadership and coaching skills: to hire mentor and mature a high performing team
  • Building psychological safety within teams by protecting/shielding teams from outside distractions
  • Guide team members through the product development lifecycle with focus on delivering quality products to customers/users within the shortest possible time
  • Act as a change agent enabling a culture in which teams can self-manage themselves, help resolve impediments and enhance team's collaboration
  • Building a self-organizing and cross-functional development team
  • Building a strong and close working relationship with the product owner(s), allowing for the support of each other and understanding the backlog priorities and what the team is trying to achieve so there's maximum clarity and transparency
  • Ensure impediments that could or are affecting the development teams are swiftly resolved thereby enabling the team focus on the iteration goal
  • Facilitating discussions, decision making and conflict resolutions amongst development teams to becoming high performing
  • Scheduling and chairing of all scrum ceremonies such as Daily-Stand Ups (DSU), Product Increment (PI) Planning, Backlog refinement, Iteration Retrospectives, Iterations Reviews
  • Attending scrum of scrum sessions and help to address and understand cross-team dependencies
  • Liaising with product management and team leads to ensure effective backlog refinement and prioritization
  • Clear understanding of the train dynamics and how to either increase or decrease the capacity of the development team to meet business demands
  • Drive and support the Agile team during big room PI Planning event/ remote event to ensure that the team commits happily to the Program Increment (PI) planning
  • Excellent communication skills including the ability to motivate and inspire the development team
  • Excellent experience of the agile development methodologies and Agile Engineering practices such as
  • SCRUM, Extreme programming XP, Test-Driven Development TDD and more
  • Excellent knowledge of the software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Developed a community of transformation champions to sustain focus and drive continuous improvement
  • Contributing to the scrum master community and the Community of Practice (CoP) sessions to develop the scrum master capability across the organization
  • Develop team togetherness and an atmosphere that allows for constructive feedback and challenge that promotes continuous improvement
  • Give and receive feedback and facilitating the feedback loops across the Agile team and the Release
  • Train Engineers (RTE)
  • Empowered squads to deliver by ROAMing risks, eliminating impediments & implementing short learning cycles
  • Adaptable and willingness to learn new skills/knowledge as required to support the effective management of change as required
  • Intra-train and Inter-train Dependency and Risk Management - Synchronisation across teams
  • Generated Metrics / Analytics / Reports for Sprints and Iterations using JIRA, Actionable Agile Analytics
  • Monte Carlo Estimations, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Velocity, Story Points, Burn-up and Burn-down charts
  • Scrum Master (Digital Transformation
  • Executed projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Aligned IT strategy with business needs, prioritising value for money, security and contractual requirements.
  • Spearheaded new IT training and development programmes to boost employee retention.
  • Collaborated with project engineers to roll out, manage, or patch software.
  • Identified skill gaps and restructured IT team, increasing department capabilities.
  • Implemented network security policies and performed audits, leading to reduction in security breaches.

BAE Systems
07.2015 - 12.2018
  • Scheduling and facilitating Scrum events including daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, show & tell sessions, and retrospectives
  • Additionally, assisting the team(s) to prepare for ART activities including PI planning, system demos and inspect + adapt
  • Led multiple teams to become strategically aligned, scalable and high performing
  • Advocating an Agile
  • DevOps mindset, being data driven and customer centric
  • Transformed existing traditional Waterfall processes and mindsets combined with a lot of red tape adapted to work in an Agile way
  • Maintaining the team's capacity plan, Scrum boards, sprint backlog, velocity charts, burndown data, product increment and product backlog
  • Working with the Product Owner to manage and prioritize work through Product backlog whilst ensuring latest work is captured and ready for the next sprint/iteration
  • Assisting the team to perform at their best by removing any obstacles; Identifying and communicating potential risks to the completion of the Iterations, including resources, costs, and external dependencies proactively escalating as required
  • Extensive use of Atlassian's JIRA and Confluence for user story maintenance, documentation, and metrics; Implementing and making use of all available collaboration tools (Workplace, Teams, WebEx
  • Skype) to aid team communication
  • Implemented Agile engineering practices as well ensuring the production team follows agile practices all through to enable the flow of work in achieving delivery of the products
  • Coordinated inter-team co-operation and support the production team to operate well on the train
  • Managing the process of flow of work and productivity using value stream mapping thereby eliminating waste, bottlenecks and improving efficiency, cross-functional collaboration and end-product quality
  • Participating, and at times, leading the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) events; Promoting SAFe principles defining team charters, Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
  • Design and Implementation of Kanban / Scrum Boards
  • Team employed Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
  • Excellent exposure to Agile Development, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior
  • Driven Development (BDD).

Project Manager

British Telecoms, BT
01.2013 - 03.2015
  • Selected to lead the development and implementation of a web-based analytic marketplace application where all reports and dashboards can be catalogued, located and utilized from a single central location
  • Led the design, development and deployment of executive-level performance metrics using cognos and
  • Tableu
  • Drove project schedules, mentored team members and interacted with key departments and stakeholders
  • Worked with cross-functional business leads on data definition standardization for consistent performance measurement across business unit
  • Assisted the technical team with data cleansing, validation and mapping from multiple data sources
  • Involved in data extract, transform and load into staging for the development of various data marts
  • Introduced technical documentation and processes for the design, development and testing of applications
  • Tracked, reviewed and revised project activities to ensure project deliverables met project objectives
  • Facilitated all project communications (status reports, status meetings, presentations and user acceptance testing)
  • Directed the development, design and implementation of programs and client applications
  • Supported ad hoc requests and requirements of PMO leadership while completing special projects
  • Successfully collaborated with developers and technical team to perform root cause analysis of all issues.

Project Support/Coordinator

01.2012 - 12.2012
  • Project planning- Overseeing and delegating tasks, scheduling resources, monitoring performance and ensuring optimal productivity
  • Training, coaching and mentoring project team on best practices, operational protocol and tactics to maximize performance
  • Steering all project management components engagements from strategy through execution including issue identification and resolution, communication and change management while developing high- quality deliverables
  • Coordinating daily calls with internal teams, project managers and client to provide real-time availability and notification of any discrepancies to meet customer deadlines
  • Interfacing with project managers to ensure continuity and use of best practices with client end-users
  • Collaborating with clients to communicate insights for advancing shared organizational goals and on- time task completion
  • Developing trusted advisor relationships with executive teams to deepen and extend practice reach by offering industry and product expertise
  • Developing, training, leading and motivating a highly successful process improvement project team
  • Identified training requirements and designing / facilitating / conducting training / workshops sessions

Education

Certified SAFe Agile Scrum -

Master - undefined

SSM - undefined

Scaled Agile Inc ISTQB Certified Foundation Tester - undefined

BSc - Pharmaceutical Science

University of Greenwich

Skills

  • Skills Profile
  • Stakeholders' management at all levels of the organisation
  • RFI, RFP, Procurement and vendor selection management
  • Project/programme planning and risk management
  • Project methodology/Agile Frameworks - Scaled Agile (SAFe) Scrum, ScrumBan, Nexus & Kanban
  • Experience of facilitating productive collaboration between product owners/ managers, System
  • Architect, business owners, development team and end-users to deliver outstanding products
  • Experience in scrum metrics, KPI's and team dynamics
  • Experience in promoting the benefits of agile methodology at both organisation and team level to
  • Facilitate accelerated maturity
  • Coaching and developing high performing cross-functional teams
  • PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt and problem-solving sessions facilitated (Onsite and remote)
  • Experienced user of tools such as Jira, Rally, Miro, Mural, Mentimetre, IdeaBoardz, Xoyondo etc
  • Workshop facilitation, ability to express technical information in simple understandable terms
  • Program governance & accelerating Agile adoption with maturity roadmap established
  • Fostering Scrum Master Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Lean Agile Centre of Excellence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Office 365
  • IT budget and cost control
  • Cloud technologies

Interests

Hobbies: , Thinking, Learning, Listening, Reading, Writing, Motivating People and Networking

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Languages

English
Fluent
Arabic
Elementary

Timeline

Scrum Master

Darent Valley Hospital
01.2019 - Current

BAE Systems
07.2015 - 12.2018

Project Manager

British Telecoms, BT
01.2013 - 03.2015

Project Support/Coordinator

01.2012 - 12.2012

Certified SAFe Agile Scrum -

Master - undefined

SSM - undefined

Scaled Agile Inc ISTQB Certified Foundation Tester - undefined

BSc - Pharmaceutical Science

University of Greenwich

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