Didier M.

Agile Delivery Leader | Driving Strategic Program Execution & Organizational Transformation I lead Agile delivery across multiple cross-functional Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives while directly contributing to PMO initiatives and organizational transformation. Partnering with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and executives, I drive seamless team onboarding, delivery predictability, and continuous improvement. What I Do: Structure and integrate new Scrum teams into Agile workflows and program timelines. Ensure features and stories consistently meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) at both program and team levels. Guide backlog refinement, sprint planning, and execution alignment across domains. Deliver weekly program reporting to the PMO and executives, surfacing risks, insights, and progress. Influence portfolio decisions by contributing to evolving PMO artifacts and governance practices. Promote Agile maturity through retrospectives, optimized ceremonies, and coaching. Impact & Achievements: Reduced onboarding lead time by 30% with standardized playbooks. Improved sprint predictability through stronger planning, estimation, and scope control. Accelerated the ramp-up of the teams via knowledge transfer and clear delivery paths. Strengthened PMO effectiveness by shaping program artifacts and reforming delivery practices. Increased delivery consistency by embedding DoR practices across teams and features.

Lead Agile delivery across three domains—Loyalty, Casino, and CoBrand—coordinating efforts between multiple Scrum teams. Partner with Program Manager and Digital Delivery leadership to align sprint objectives with strategic business outcomes. Facilitate sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, and retrospectives; coached teams to reduce rollover stories by 30%. Oversee cross-team dependencies, risk management, and sprint planning to improve predictability and velocity. Implement process automation initiatives improving delivery visibility and cycle efficiency.

Administered Agile ceremonies for a 12-member Agile team, ensuring effective sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives. Coached Agile teams on throughput improvement, collaboration, and root-cause analysis, driving measurable delivery gains. Supported Agile PMO initiatives to streamline delivery practices, enhancing team maturity and alignment. Leveraged Jira, Rally, and Mural to track team progress and foster collaboration across distributed environments. Mentored Product Owners on backlog refinement, prioritization, and value-based delivery.

Administered all Agile ceremonies for an Agile team of 12 members, including Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective. Coached Agile team to increase their throughput using techniques including swarming, and high- collaboration approaches such as Paired Programming. Leveraged tools such as Jira, Rally and Mural to track team progress and promote collaboration. Coached PO on Agile methods for user story prioritization and backlog refinement, to optimize effective focus on value delivery. Identified and removed impediments, and coached team members in effective root-cause analysis techniques such as the 5-whys technique, and open Sprint Retrospective discussions to ensure team alignment. Led Agile team to self-managing maturity, resulting in various successful processes automation. Coached Agile teams on embracing Agile culture using collaboration tools such as Slack, Skype, Zoom, Wiki, and MS Office Suite. Effectively promoted continuous learning culture in the Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP).

Facilitated Agile ceremonies, promoting collaboration among geographically dispersed teams. Introduced Agile best practices that reduced project cycle times by 15%. Guided product delivery teams to achieve predictable velocity and improved quality through continuous delivery. Advocated for customer-centric approaches, enhancing satisfaction and engagement.

Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for an Agile team of 8. Influenced continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development. processes, leading to the integration of solution architectures such as SAS. Provided actionable insight to the Agile team during Retrospective events to ensure open discussions. Used Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work. Assisted PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria. Used the Scrum of Scrums event to coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration. Introduced working agreements to promote transparency and clarity within the Agile team. Coached Agile team to self-manage, resulting in a high-performance team, which met federal-client goals, and multi-million-dollar contract extension. Coached Agile team on the value of test automation practices to ensure continuous delivery.

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and managed Kanban boards to monitor team velocity and performance. Introduced innovation in development processes, integrating solution architectures like SAS. Coached Agile teams in test automation, improving delivery consistency and speed. Used Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies and ensure cross-team alignment. Contributed to multi-million-dollar federal-client contract renewal through Agile delivery excellence.

Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & Backlog Refinement. Facilitates communication within the agile team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on the scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect. Uses Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different Sprint. Lennar, Washington DC September 2010 – September 2012 Junior Project Manager Education: Bachelor of ArtsOctober 2003 - December 2008 Professional Development – Management Ohio Valley University – West Virginia Ensures the effectiveness of product development processes by using the matrix to guide team communication and resolve impediments when necessary. Together with the scrum team, defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence and synchronization in the entire processes. Coaches the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improve team performance.

Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Demos). Guided the team in adopting effective communication and problem-solving strategies. Used Jira to track sprint progress and resolve impediments collaboratively. Supported continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization across sprints.

Created long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines. Delegated tasks on the project to employees best positioned to complete them. Made effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project Served as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy. Communicated with executives or the board to keep the project aligned with their goals Performed quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected Adjusted schedules and targets on the project as needs or financing for the project change