Ife Agboola

A solution-driven Scrum Master and Project Manager with over 7years experience coaching and leading                cross-functional teams in development and delivery of valuable increments through adoption of agile and/or hybrid project framework.  Expertise in fostering team collaborative spirit, analyzing issues, eliminating impediments, devising continuous process improvement, and incorporating business process initiatives to accelerate strategic measures to strengthen performance with sustained business results.

Scrum Master                                                                                                                 December 2022 - Present

Book4Time, Canada     

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product Owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
• Facilitate groups of 5-10 and coach multiple teams across the products
• Conduct all Scrum Ceremonies
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership and help clear impediments for the team
• Collaborate in the creation and maintenance of the product backlog
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
• Provide periodic team performance reporting toward product outcomes

Scrum Master                                                                                                                                   March 2020 – July 2022 

AXA   

Responsibilities

• Served as Scrum Master for multiple agile development teams, creating web-based quality Improvement and evaluation System for Insurance, Health, and Investment Services 
• Worked to improve the processes and quality of teamwork by implementing test-driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards, and participating in design and implementation reviews
• Implemented a cross functional working environment across BA/PO/UX/Architecture/QA.     
• Defined and developed an approach to reporting of agile metrics and measurements specific for each team i.e., Established predictable team velocity and story estimation.  
• Trained and coached Product Owners, Business Analysts and Developers on better ways of Story creation of Epics/Features/User Stories and how to use best agile practice to refine and prioritize product backlog
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and working sessions to identify resolutions to impediments. This helped to improve team overall output and foster common ground for tracking project status
• Acted as a liaison to assist the team in managing dependencies between the team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other agile teams
• Ran the scrum ceremony in line with agile values (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Sprint Review) 
• Facilitated the formation and norming of scrum teams, established working agreements, definition of ready and definition of done in a view to ensure agreement and alignment with team and project goals.

Project Manager                                                                                                                       April 2015 – February 2020

AXA 

Responsibilities

• Managed and supervised the execution of customer experience and brand management project plans within the company
• Conducted stakeholder analysis, impact analysis and risk mitigation to ensure smooth flow of project implementation
• Planned and reviewed project outcomes with business developers & account managers
• Worked with team leads to ensure deliverables were met
• Utilized project management tools for tracking of project updates
• Monitored CAPEX and OPEX for budget management and resource allocation
• Developed project scope of work and other pertinent documents needed for project use
• Ensured profitability of project by implementing cost control to track man hours viz-a-viz timeline deliverables

Project Management Professional (PMP)®                                2022       

Certified SAFe ScrumMaster                                                         2022

Master of Arts (English Language)                                              2014

Bachelor of Arts (English Studies)                                               2011