Halima Said

About Halima Said

Accomplished, experienced, and effective Scrum Master with servant leadership qualities…

Experience

1. Scrum Master

   Bristol Myers Squibb

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Schedule and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. • Guide and support the Product Owner to maintaining a prioritized backlog i.e MOSCOW, WSJF and T-shirt sizing techniques. • Created Jira boards for easy planning, visualization, and management of projects. • Work with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and working towards achieving the sprint goal. • Track and communicate team velocity, sprint, and release progress. • Facilitated internal and external communication within the team members and other teams and encourage effective collaboration. • Attend Scrum of Scrums to discuss and work on dependencies among teams. • Generated project reports to provide progress updates to stakeholders. • Teaching new team members about agile specifically Scrum values and explaining why they need to be practiced well to succeed as a team. • Guide team members to achieve optimum productivity through process improvement by regularly checking our process. • Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity. • Help build a productive environment where team members own the product and enjoy working on it. • Build a trusting and safe environment where challenges are raised and explored with emphasis of problem solving. • Work with the product owner(s) to support short and long-term release planning and manage interdependencies. • Worked closely with teams developing a mobile application to make check deposit real time and to also eliminate any fraudulent checks.