Kenneth Mbu

Scrum Master @Fannie Mae

DC, US

Scrum Master to 2 scrum teams with emphasis on servant-leadership.•Help teams identify and resolve impediments. •Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement) for all the scrum teams I lead.•Work closely with product owners in backlog refinement using different prioritization methods.•Facilitate Release Planning and support PMs and stakeholders allocating scopes to sprints based on business needs agile.•Manage inter-dependencies between agile team.•Enforcing the practice of having stories in “Ready” state before sprint planning•Empower the Scrum Teams and shield the Scrum Teams from outside influences and distractions.•Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.•Assist Product Owners and Business Analysts to create User Stories and ensure they in the right format.•Train Product owners on how to write Acceptance Criteria and to see benefits in having stories “Ready”•Resolve all JIRA issues across teams and stakeholders.•Identify risk and remove impediments and for teams. •Helping Scrum teams to agile maturity levels of resolving impediments themselves.•Oversaw scrum process and coached the teams; facilitate transparency, inspection, and adaption.•Work with the business users and stakeholder in identifying and documenting Business Requirements. •Coordinate with the Project Owner in writing and prioritizing user stories for the Product Backlog,•Serve as Release Train Engineer for Equinox bi-monthly releases. •Coordinate with the different Scrum teams around release dependencies and removing release blockers.•Help scrum teams stay organized.•Ensure offshore team members are in sync with all scrum team ceremonies.•Coach teams to be self-organized and to resolve impediments themselves.•Develop creative ways to run retrospectives to get valuable feedback for continuous improvement.

INVENSIS

PSM1,CSM,SAFE AGILE (SA)