Arun Kumar

• Implementing, coaching and empowering 8-member team on Scrum/Agile methodologies for 2-week sprints
• Facilitating sessions on Agile to educate the management and team on its principles, values, and benefits
• Facilitating Impact Mapping and Story Mapping workshops to identify and define priority features for upcoming sprints
• Facilitating planning sessions to finalize MVP, break it down into epics and further down to user stories
• Established best practice processes between Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Engineering to ensure a shared understanding of requirements has been established.
• Guiding team to slice larger user stories into smaller ones (INVEST) and refine the backlog 
• Driving user story estimation sessions using Affinity Estimation and Planning Poker (Fibonacci series) techniques
• Driving sessions with PO and Development Team to finalize on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
• Planning sprint goals with team based on their bandwidth, and ensuring that we have a healthy backlog with next sprint’s user stories to be estimated 
• Leveraging team to tackle obstacles reducing wait time whilst working on a resolution
• Setting up ground rules for the team to ensure that the Scrum framework is embraced and followed
• Ensured the teams are undertaking agreed ceremonies within the agile process and consistency is built across the delivery teams.
• Ensured open communication culture is embedded between IT and business stakeholders.
• Driving team to use Jira/Confluence to maintain all documentation (including induction material) in a common repository 
• Responsible for starting and completing sprints in JIRA and assigning user stories to current sprint from the product backlog
• Identifying risks and issues proactively and mitigating them to enable smooth delivery

Scrum Master with 12 years of IT experience

Masters in computer application