Blessing Peters
Scrum Master
London
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with more than 6 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
1
1
Language
Work History
Scrum Master
Capgemini
06.2022 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
Scrum Master
SANTANDER BANKING GROUP
04.2020 - 05.2022
- An improved synergy between the product owner and Scrum team | Helped with prioritization techniques | Provided the right working environment for the Scrum Team | Created a self-sufficient Scrum Team
- Coached team members not familiar with Scrum and ensure meetings were as beneficial as possible
- Responsible for coordination and facilitation of daily stand-up meetings, planning, reviews, and retrospectives ensuring purpose and value are achieved whilst team members are empowered to drive the events without depending on me
- Incrementally delivering quality improvements to content solutions by supporting Product and Development initiatives
- Track and manage product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown
- Address problems through risk management and contingency planning
- Help team to establish a stringent definition of ready which fostered better refinement of requirements for deliverables
- Protect the team from distractions or risks ensuring stakeholder expectations are delivered
- Use the dashboard on Jira to communicate to the team and others the status of our product (states of epic completion)
- Taught the business analyst some techniques which enabled them to write better user stories
Scrum Master
REGISTERS OF SCOTLAND
01.2016 - 04.2020
- Created an innovative environment that promotes fail small learn quick |Galvanized the team which made them look at the project as their own and take more ownership |Sustained self-organizing which enabled the team to complete the project without my constant supervision or interjection
- Doing all I can to help the scrum team to maintain a healthy workflow from start to finish
- Setting up sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning sessions and facilitating as required
- Made sure that the scrum team is not interrupted during the sprint
- Made sure that all possible obstacles that could affect the team are removed
- Ensured that the product owner understands the most technical aspects of the product and user stories
- Input some backlog management techniques to support the PO
- Endeavor that there is a useful and viable collaboration between the product owner and the Scrum team
- Supported the product owner and solution architect in managing and scheduling the project roadmap, managing multiple work streams and conflicting priorities
- Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
- Supported and lead the development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product
- Uses relevant metrics (burn down, velocity, epic completeness) to measure progress or status of the team which helps the product owner and business managers with forecast or predictability
- Keeps an eye on the team’s health to ensure there is a sustainable pace
- I used some techniques such as journey lines, happiness doors, or Spotify team health check strategies to measure this.
Property Manager
LONDON & QUADRANT
06.2013 - 01.2016
- Property Management, Landlord & Tenant Contract Administration
- Maximizing rental returns and minimizing tenancy renewals/ management of voids
- Ensuring costs are minimized and income maximized by managing tenancy renewals/effectively
- Preparing documentation and pitches for meetings as well as creating property files
- Accomplish financial objectives; collecting rents, analyzing vacancies, initiating corrective action
- Maintain property; investigate/resolve tenant complaints, enforce rules, inspect vacant units, complete repairs
Education
BSc. - Sport Science
University Of Bedfordshire
Skills
Excellent FacilitatorAnalytical and Problem SolvingFinancial and Project ManagementRisks and Conflict ResolutionGreat Communicator and CollaboratorClient facing/stakeholder experienceWeb applications, customer cycle, Software, SDLC)Servant LeadershipNetworking and Builds RelationshipsChange AgentLeads, Coach, Mentors, and TeachesKnowledge of CRM, MS Office Tools, Jira, Confluence, and Google Suite, Java Script, React, Github
Project Management
Documentation Management
Development team trainings
Risk identification
Certification
Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) Scrum.orgScrum.org
Timeline
Scrum Master
Capgemini
06.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
SANTANDER BANKING GROUP
04.2020 - 05.2022
Scrum Master
REGISTERS OF SCOTLAND
01.2016 - 04.2020
Property Manager
LONDON & QUADRANT
06.2013 - 01.2016
BSc. - Sport Science
University Of Bedfordshire