Aminat Adams

Senior Scrum Master @HSBC

Buffalo, NY, US

Facilitating team scrum events (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective) and making sure there’s full team engagement. Helping the product owner manage the product backlog by making sure that user stories are regularly groomed, prioritized by business value and are sprint ready. Ensuring teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD). Identifying and removing impediments to teams works progress. Making sure the team’s work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and defect summary reports. Shielding the team from interruptions and removes obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product. Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress Assisting teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed. Attending PI Planning to help identify team dependencies, risks, stretch goals and objectives for the upcoming Program Increment. Supporting Release Train Engineer, Product Managers and business to drive strategic agendas. Helping the organizations solve problems rather than providing solutions. Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable

Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Bachelor's degree