Esah Abianji

About Esah Abianji

Highly experienced SAFe certified Scrum Master with over 11 years of experience in program, project and operations management across financial, logistics, insurance, oil and gas industries. Proven track record of successfully leading, motivating and directing teams to achieve desired goals. Over 6 years’ experience leading scrum teams and Adept in leading Agile implementation, facilitating sprint activities and conducting scrum ceremonies. I utilize 6 major stances in bringing my teams to self-organization: Mentor, Teacher, Coach, Change Agent, Facilitator, LeaderTo support organizational success in implementing product delivery certified SAFe Scrum Masters are leveraging their scrum, agile, and business analysis skills.Through the process of integrating scrum values, scrum pillars, and scrum events, I help organizations embrace and practice the agile way of doing things in their settings:⏯ Utilized JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders. ⏯ Coached the scrum team and stakeholders where necessary to agile practices as outlined by the Scrum Framework.⏯ Managed the Scrum Event calendar to ensure all event meetings are held and stayed within the time box.⏯ Organized and facilitated scrum team events and related meetings across the organization …. •

Experience

1. Sr Scrum Master

   Nationwide

   Sep 2020 — Present

   Leverage Scrum of Scrums event to coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration.• Develop a system of effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria.• Employ Jira to track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work.• Organize all SAFe Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for 2 Agile teams.• Formulate continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development. • Provide actionable insight to the Agile team during Retrospective events to ensure open discussions.• Develop working agreements to promote transparency and clarity within the Agile team.• Conceptualize the agile team to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which met federal-client goals, and multi-million-dollar contract extension.

Education

• University of Yaounde 1

  Bachelor`s, Language and Communications