W N Akama

Key Responsibilities: - Equip teams with agile philosophy and techniques, including scalability tactics, standards, scheduling, forecasting, documentation, and issue mitigation. - Support process execution and evaluation via agile/lean approach, collaborating with internal stakeholders. - Establish agile release trains, program team ceremonies, and facilitate program increment, feature drafting, backlog grooming, scrum of scrums, retrospectives, and inspect/adapt via agile transformation team cooperation. - Liaise with product owners to create team standards/tools and best approaches, facilitating team prioritization via stories and activity role/size. Key Achievements: - Successfully applied agile concepts, architecting team and company plans while implementing SAFe agile transformation's multi-year planning. - Achieved 30% increase in team velocity, retaining new threshold, and tracked bottlenecks/retrospectives logs, velocity charts, and project scope reporting. - Resolved issues with project leads, leveraging JIRA for product backlog and sprint/release burn-down chart assessment. - Ensured achievement of current iteration, approaching release, and project vision objectives. - Developed accurate team working agreements, DOR, and DOD in coordination with teams.

Lead Agile software development teams delivering within defined budget, schedule, and governance constraints. Established Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and facilitated PI planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect & Adapt sessions. Partner closely with Product Owners and business stakeholders to align roadmaps, priorities, and delivery outcomes with strategic goals. Drive successful adoption of SAFe Agile practices, supporting multi-year planning and scalable delivery models. Improved delivery predictability and increased team velocity by 30% by optimizing workflows, managing dependencies, and removing execution risks. Leveraged Jira and Agile metrics to track progress, manage risks, and ensure delivery against iteration and release objectives. Fostered a culture of accountability, collaboration, and transparency through strong team working agreements, Definition of Ready (DoR), and Definition of Done (DoD).

Key Responsibilities: - Directed and guided system improvement and development, providing excellent support to multi-disciplinary teams. - Managed product backlog via Jira, generating metrics and Confluence documentation for teams. - Led two teams in product backlog management, iteration, daily standup, sprint strategy, analysis, and retrospective. - Anticipated and prepared user stories, coordinating weekly backlog grooming workshops. Key Achievements: - Successfully met sprint objectives by reducing team roadblocks and leading refinement and user story-writing programs. - Optimized accuracy, integrity, and financial reporting/corporate strategy conformity through team collaboration and KPI dashboard generation. - Ensured adherence to product backlog timeframe and services via PO coordination. - Fostered agile tool maturity and competency with business and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities: - Led two cross-functional scrum teams to drive revenue growth and process improvements. - Introduced Kanban system, resulting in 22% decrease in product delivery time. - Trained and mentored three new Scrum Masters to enhance team capabilities. - Evaluated architecture design across the company to ensure alignment with business goals. - Collaborated with product owners to set project goals and objectives. - Created and monitored daily targets for each team member to ensure accountability. - Advocated scrum values and motivated team members to foster a culture of excellence. - Provided ongoing professional development on organizational skills and Agile best practices. Key Achievements: - Acquired in-depth knowledge of product/customer needs through active involvement with executives and Product Owners. - Accelerated team velocity by 63% in the first year of agile deployment using Agile Scrum principles. - Ensured efficient PI process implementation in partnership with Release Train Engineer. - Streamlined scrum meetings with 15-minute time limits and parking lot DSU for off-agenda issues, resulting in effective scrum of scrums meetings. - Achieved team consistency, concluded stories, and enhanced velocity through support team leadership for sprint development, while documenting and resolving obstacles and retrospective action items.

Key Responsibilities: - Supervised and facilitated sprints, release strategy, daily stand-up meetings, analysis, retrospectives, presentations, and product backlog refinement workshops. - Addressed agile/scrum framework gaps by proactively mentoring teams to ensure successful implementation. - Ensured timely and prompt product release delivery through effective networking with clients and project stakeholders. - Provided expert-level supervision to teams, assisting scrum teams in overcoming sprint issues and achieving success. - Employed corrective actions to eliminate bottlenecks, leading to efficient task completion. - Collaborated with Product Owner to build and maintain a sustainable product backlog. - Monitored WIP and flow of work, adjusted queue size, and directed batch enhancement of work. Key Achievements: - Integrated epics and user stories within product needs in product/sprint backlog manner, ensuring alignment with business objectives. - Adopted TFS to manage release, backlog, pulling team reporting, and scrum ceremonies, streamlining processes and improving efficiency. - Organized knowledge-sharing sessions, enhancing transparency and information dissemination via internal/external communication. - Collaborated with stakeholders as a Business Analyst to identify business needs and requirements, working with the development team to ensure solution alignment.