Idowu Okeniyi

Scrum master with 6 years of experience in traditional waterfall and Scrum projects.

• Facilitated all Scrum events such as Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement sessions, Sprint planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives, while removing team impediments to keep the team focused on sprint goals.
• Attained positive upward trends in team metrics by consistently cultivating a culture of transparency in team artifacts, inspecting and adapting to promote continuous improvement.
• Led and coached the team in its agile adoption by organizing training sessions on key Scrum concepts, which helped to increase the Scrum Team’s understanding of Scrum and accelerated the team’s agile maturity
• Effectively coordinated backlog refinement to ensure the team had a shared understanding of user stories, making sure user stories were estimated and acceptance criteria identified to reduce requirements rework and promote team predictability.
• Utilized various retrospective formats to prevent Sprint retrospectives from going stale, facilitated the retrospectives to identify improvement items and worked with the Scrum team to implement the new strategies
• Ensured that risks and impediments were documented, risk owners assigned, and mitigation plan identified with particular emphasis on timely removal of impediments by appropriate owners for quick resolution.
• Coached and supported the Product Owner on best practices for maintaining a healthy, refined, and prioritized product backlog.
• Established positive working relationships with stakeholders and executives outside of the team acting as a coach and champion of the agile methodology

Construction Project Management – Postgraduate Degree September 2019 – April 2020
Fanshawe College -President's Honor Roll