Chinwe Obadike

About Chinwe Obadike

Agile Certified Scrum Master, 7 years of information technology experience and over 5 plus years\' experience coaching, mentoring scrum teams and stakeholders in Agile software development practices. Proven servant leader and motivator inspiring teams become high performing, self-organized delivering high quality valuables.• Result driven servant leader, mentor multiple teams transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.• Analytical, committed, influential and innovative Scrum Master, with outstanding teams\' velocity.• Excellent knowledge and experience in: SAFe, SCRUM, KANBAN, SCRUMBAN frameworks.• Drive communication between developers, product team, stakeholders, DevOps, API, AWS teams, etc.• Proactive, excellent risk mitigator, solution driven and very effective at tracking and dependencies.• Coach and mentor product team on user stories refinement of business and enablers epics/features.• SDLC coordination: planning, design, coding, testing, deployment, release, and maintenance.• Team-growth focused, continuously foster an environment for high performing cross functional teams.• Proficient in emotional intelligence, soft skills, conflicts resolutions to upkeep team\'s morale.

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   Intelycare

   Jun 2021 — Present

   Exhibiting lean agile leadership by helping teams embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles and implement SAFe practices.• Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.• Using JIRA tool in collaboration with Agile frameworks to track team\'s progress while aligning the team\'s efforts to their goal and optimizing delivery.• Coaching Product Owners and other teams in role execution, backlog management, facilitating meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution.• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required.• Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.• Team award for consistent delivery excellence for 3 consecutive quarters, achieved through early identification and removal of blockers, consistent team coaching and training.• Facilitate retrospective sessions using different approaches to ensure team participation and increase morale.• Demonstrate ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.

Education

• University of Port Harcourt

  BSc. Econ

  2012 — 2016