A Senior Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead
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Dynamic Senior Scrum Master with over 8 years of experience in agile delivery and team leadership. Proven track record in enhancing delivery excellence and optimising team performance through effective collaboration and agile methodologies. Successfully managed multiple delivery teams at esteemed companies such as Visa and Jaguar Land Rover, driving measurable improvements in project outcomes.
Bringing a unique blend of coaching skills and strategic thinking, poised to add significant value to your organisation by fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
INFLO, NEWCASTLE
Collaborate with the product owner to decompose features, facilitate story-mapping, and refine actionable stories for sprint commitment.
Develop and nurture individuals, fostering high-performing teams, ensuring clear developmental objectives are met, and supporting a culture of learning and career development.
Coordinate across multiple teams and functions, ensuring smooth delivery in scaled or complex environments. Enable team performance by radiating metrics and promoting cross-team learning to enhance business and team agility.
DXC TECHNOLOGIES, NEWSCASTLE
Lead agile ceremonies including sprint planning, feature refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are efficient and outcome-focused.
Cultivate strong relationships with front and back-end product development teams, collaborating to strategise and manage product initiatives that meet customer needs and expectations.
Partner with product groups, leadership, and senior stakeholders to ensure clarity in the backlog, aligning prioritisation, definitions, and refinement with business objectives.
Identify, track, and monitor dependencies, removing delivery blockers and showstoppers while escalating issues when necessary.
Analyse and disseminate agile team performance metrics (velocity, burn-down charts, lead and cycle time) to drive continuous improvement and enable data-driven decision-making using Power BI or Linear B.
JAGUAR LANDROVER, LONDON
Drive the utilisation of effective metrics and other objective measures across teams to enhance predictability. Support healthy team dynamics by fostering a psychologically safe environment where transparency and trust catalyse change and continuous improvement.
Identify and address impediments at team and organisational levels, proactively working to eliminate barriers and nurture a productive and supportive work environment.
Advocate for the adoption of agile practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and agility across the organisation.
INFOSYS CONSULTING, READING
Assist teams in visualising and radiating information for stakeholders and clients, ensuring transparency and governance, even in complex situations.
Serve the needs of the teams and product owners by prioritising backlogs, conducting productive refinements, ensuring a clear understanding of estimations, and successfully delivering on sprint/product goals. Establish and maintain motivated and cohesive onsite and remote teams, taking on line management responsibilities for colleagues.
Ensure that progress and processes remain transparent, predictable, and sustainable, assisting the product group in delivering value to the business.
VISA, LONDON
Ensure all prerequisites are established throughout the SDLC for the product team to function effectively, proactively resolving blockers to facilitate successful product delivery.
Coach teams to foster predictability, sustainability, value orientation, and flexibility.
Manage agile teams to maintain an efficient, flexible, and continuous delivery pipeline aligned with the product function and strategic direction.
Oversee, support, and promote the personal and professional development of agile teams.
Leverage insights from the scrum master community to identify systematic inhibitors of agile practices and drive their resolution, enabling successful scaling of agile delivery.
Ensure that no work, or additional work, is undertaken without necessary authorisation from clients or the business.
Expertly manage risks and dependencies, aligning documentation for resolutions while monitoring work flow to reduce lead times and address issues as appropriate.
Guide projects and product deliveries through the pipeline, ensuring strict adherence to testing requirements.
Successfully leverage scrum events to support product and project delivery.
Collaborate with the product owner to define roadmaps and translate these into actionable user stories.
Align roadmap deliverables with the teams' capacity and capabilities.
Assist the product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog, addressing blockers for the development team.
Cumbria, United Kingdom 07/2023 – Present
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