Nuela Kem

Scrum Master @United States Department Of War

Coordinating all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement. Influencing continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development. Providing actionable insight to the Agile team during Retrospective events to ensure open discussions. Using Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work. Assisting PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria. Using the Scrum of Scrums event to coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration. Introduced working agreements to promote transparency and clarity within the Agile team. Coaching Agile teams to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which meets client goals, and multi-million-dollar contract extension. Coaching Agile teams on the value of test automation practices to ensure continuous delivery. Leveraged Kanban to plan work and limit WIP.