Sera Tambe

About Sera Tambe

Brand and communications strategist with 7+ years of experience driving brand…

Experience

1. Sr Scrum Master Agile Coach

   TD

   Aug 2021 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standup, Iteration Review/Demos, IterationRetrospectives, & Backlog Refinement to promote transparency, inspection, and adaptation across theorganization.• Facilitate stakeholders’ engagement to develop high level presentations, transition plans ensuring business valueare delivered in a timely manner. Foster a culture of open communications and continuous improvement.• Identified and removed impediments, ensuring the smooth progress of projects, and influencing leadership totake necessary actions.• Participate in PI planning, uses the Coach Sync event to coordinate cross-team’s dependencies and collaborationwith other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) for alignment and synchronization.• Uses tools such as Jira, and Kanban board to monitor and track key scrum metrics such as burndown chat, velocity,burn up chat, customer satisfaction, working software, cycle time, lead time, throughput, team collaboration tohelp deliver value.• Expertise in working with Prod support team and cross functional teams; full stack, front end, back end, Data,UX/UI, and CI/CD and deliver of working software incrementally in a fast-paced environment.• Assisted PO with effective backlog grooming, estimations, prioritizations, using MoSCoW technique, establishingAcceptance Criteria (AC), Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD). Introduced teams’ workingagreement to promote transparency.• Support Dev teams with Unit Testing, TDD, Regression Testing, BDD, System Integration Testing (SIT), User AcceptanceTesting (UAT).• Participate in releases, inspect, and adapt sessions for continue improvement across the program level.