Olivia Woodson

About Olivia Woodson

I thrive on the excitement of transforming teams and processes within the ever-evolving…

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   Optum

   Feb 2020 — Present

   Facilitates the implementation of the Agile methodology to the teams, stakeholders and enterprise that led to the increase in productivity. • Assessed each scrum team member\'s responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee\'s workload. • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins. • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases. • I am highly experienced in the use of Agile tools: Jira, Rally, Confluence, TFS, DevOps, and Microsoft Suite (MS Project, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, MS Word) to track software development, communicate with team, and generate data related to team performance (velocity and burndown chart). • Cultivate a continuous learning environment delivering education and training for the enablement of effective Scrum Masters, product ownership, and Agile delivery teams with the ability to scale, • Experience working with a SAFe Scrum environment, facilitating Program Increment (PI) sessions with eight Scrum teams and over 120 participants. • Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices. • Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement. • Assists in dependency management and cross-team coordination. • Agile Ceremony Facilitation • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement. • Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency, and self-organization. • Removes impediments to the team\'s ability to perform. • Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics. • Has situational leadership abilities and can utilize emotional intelligence to adjust the style. • Ability to help teams through changes. Uses processes and/or agile principles to work through change. • Understands adaptability in our processes and operations.