Abiola Alao

Senior Scrum Master Assistant Vice President @PNC

Increased Agile Team Maturity: Help the product teams, product team leaders, and stakeholders grow in Agile maturity.• Guided teams on how to get the most out of self-organization and leveraging this to evolve agile practices.• Championed Scrum, its roles, events, and artifacts to help my teams and stakeholders understand their value.• Provided needed support in Managing interdependencies between teams.• Working with Development Teams and Product Owners to continue to evolve our planning practice in support of a continuous planning model.• Regularly assessed Agile maturity and actively coach to higher levels of growth• Facilitated and supported all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective• Collaborated with Product Managers/Owners and multifunctional teams to create product roadmaps and determine project goals, scope, and budget.• Product Increment Alignment: Worked with the Product Owner and the Development Team to help ensure alignment around a thematic, demonstrable product increment goal for each sprint.• Culture Facilitator: Facilitated team conversations using the Scrum core values of focus, openness, respect, courage, and commitment.• Trust Enabler: Build a trusting and safe environment where concerns and frustrations can be raised with an emphasis on continual improvement.• Facilitated discussions that led to collective decision-making, goal setting, and conflict resolution within the team