Becky Champlin

About Becky Champlin

As a Certified ScrumMaster with over a decade of experience, I currently serve as the Director of Program Management at Polly. My role focuses on managing a team of Scrum Masters, guiding distributed Scrum teams, and creating scalable processes to enhance the efficiency of cross-departmental collaboration. I specialize in Agile Methodologies and project management, applying these competencies to improve team performance and streamline workflows across departments. At Polly, I work to ensure seamless communication and collaboration among teams while maintaining a strong focus on Agile principles. By facilitating Scrum ceremonies, refining processes with tools like Jira and Confluence, and monitoring performance metrics, I strive to foster continuous improvement and enable teams to achieve their highest potential. My mission is to create sustainable, efficient processes that support organizational growth and success.

Experience

1. Director of Program Management

   Polly

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Managed team of Scrum Masters*Acted as Scrum Master for two distributed Scrum teams. Facilitated daily standups and sprint retrospectives, and participated in Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Backlog Refinement.*Configured and maintained complex Jira instance*Created and maintained process documentation in Confluence *Created a cross department process for SOW requests to ensure that the Product, Design and Engineering teams were able to review and estimate requests before making customer commits*Tracked scrum team metrics and created plans for areas in need of improvement*Created reports for the CS & Implementations team to monitor high priority items*Worked with the Product team to define and iterate on the PRD process*Instituted a company wide Sprint Review to ensure total transparency on the scrum teams\' objectives*Developed and implemented strategic program management frameworks to enhance operational efficiency.*Facilitated stakeholder engagement sessions to align project goals with organizational objectives.*Led postmortems following critical incidents

Education

• University of Rhode Island

  BA, Psychology, Sociology

  2003 — 2005

• University of Maryland

  n/a, Criminology and Criminal Justice

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Program Management
• Analysis
• Usability Testing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Team Leadership
• Workshop Facilitation
• Project Management
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Mobile Devices
• Requirements Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Research
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Project Management