Mohammed

Senior Agile Lead Scrum Master @Experian

Nottinghamshire, GB

Identified and addressed conflicts, risks, and dependencies to maintain project momentum.• Define key agile performance metrics and ensure their collection and analysis.• As a servant leader to the Scrum team, ensuring team members have the resources and support needed to succeed.• Mentor team to understand Agile, Scrum and Kanban principles and values. • Ensuring the people inside the team/company have the right understanding about Scrum so scrum is not misused or abused.• Coaching the team members in self-management and empowering the team to use their initiative to determine what to do, who should do it and when it should be done. • Coaching the team members to be cross functional and have the skills necessary to perform their day-to-day work without constantly relying on colleagues outside of the team. Explaining to team and stakeholders not having the skills on the team reduces the team’s autonomy and ability to optimally manage their own work. • Educate team to focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the definition of done, encouraging team to focus on value delivered, better estimation, accurate planning.• Influence the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress and effectiveness.• Find techniques for effective Product and Sprint Goal definition and Product Backlog management, focusing on MoSCoW technique, continuous prioritization of backlog, breaking down EPICs into manageable stories, maintaining up to date definition of ready (DoR)• Manage and coach Team on Risk mitigation with facilitating regular stakeholders’ involvement to identify and address potential risks or issues earlier. Early involvement leads to significant time saving and resources, reducing the risk of wasted effort or late-stage rework.

University of Derby

BSc Honors Degree