Sofia Mohammed
- Role
- Scrum Master at Prudential Financial Services Limited
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Scrum Master
Prudential Financial Services Limited
Aug 2022 — Present · US
Working on streamlining the agile process for Salesforce team while helping new Scrum Masters come up to speed. Agile & Project Management • Cleaned sprint backlog, guiding scrum team regarding scrum & agile processes/values while maintaining high visibility of work on JIRA boards. Supported the restructuring of teams as well as on-boarding of new team members • Facilitating Scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review and retrospective sessions. Acting as servant-leader, removing impediments and ensuring team productivity • Worked with Delivery Assurance leadership as an Agile transformation lead to build new scrum teams, setup their cadence and momentum by acting as scrum master and coach for few weeks and then handing over to junior scrum masters. • Stood-up over 5 teams from scratch, ran the show for few months and then handed over to new scrum masters • Established weekly, bi-weekly and quarters metrics and decks for leadership reporting on scrum team performance using Q-o-Q comparisons of cycle(ActionableAgile), velocity trends and Say-do ratio among others • Conducted periodic white board sessions regarding scrum processes, story pointing and estimations, basics of writing user stories, scrum refresher trainings among others • Driving release management along with release manager by defining and publishing the release cadence, convening release planning meetings and coordinating release playbook to monitor preparedness for release • Driving technical debt and QA Automation initiatives by aligning dev leads and Solution architects across teams. Helped them build a healthy tech debt backlog and then work through the backlog to reduce tech debt • Using JIRA extensively to help team in visualizing and organizing work better. Using Confluence as a repository for business related requirements • Calculate team capacity and velocity. Conducted KT session for team to understand story pointing using Fibonacci series
Education
Osmania University, Hyderabad
Bachelors in commerce
2012 — 2015
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