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Muldith Jallah

Essex,MD

Summary

Innovative and analytical leader with a strong background in guiding teams and organizations in Agile/Scrum practices. Drives scrum teams towards continuous improvement, providing support and education to product owners, and offering daily coaching to ensure the successful adoption and application of agile practices. Excels at facilitating scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, leading discussions, making informed decisions, and resolving conflicts. Passionate about empowering self-organizing teams, promoting Agile principles, and facilitating smooth communication between stakeholders to ensure the delivery of valuable product increments.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

The Key
10.2023 - 07.2024
  • Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning
  • Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing
  • Effectively tracked team progress using key metrics like burn down, burn up chart velocity and Sprint retrospective action items
  • Expertly promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increased productivity and foster innovation
  • Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to internal and external stakeholders
  • Implemented techniques to keep the scrum ceremonies smooth by implement various icebreakers
  • Protected team from internal and external distraction to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and grow accordingly
  • Focused on the development of a trusted and collaborative team environment
  • Collaborated with team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders to understand the nature of impediments and find effective solutions
  • Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing
  • Work with Scrum Masters across four sites to prepare for and facilitate potential shippable increment planning sessions
  • Expertly promote continuous improvement and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation
  • Worked with stakeholders, Product Owner for effectively scoping/user stories
  • Proficiently facilitate rumsprint planning meetings, helping the team select and commit to user stories, and ensuring a clear understanding of sprint goals and priorities
  • Prepared and delivered regular status reports and project updates to stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress, issues, and changes

Scrum Master

EWCC
11.2020 - 02.2023
  • Servant leader ensuring the smooth flow of informatio, promoting transparency, developing team-building events, and leveraging conflict management and interpersonal problem-solving to solve any disputes
  • Coach and guide cross-functional and self-independent scrum teams on agile principles and best practices
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies for two teams, one team of nine and another seven with a daily stand-up, sprint planning, refining, sprint review, and retrospective
  • Guide team in moving and updating tasks on the task boards for transparency and effective communication
  • Assist scrum team and Product Owner in prioritizing product backlog items and escalating impediments
  • Guide the team in user stories estimations using the Fibonacci sequence, planning poker, and T-shirt sizing
  • Turned around a delayed project due to team conflict by meeting one-on-one before and after sprint retrospective to build trust and showcase the developers' value resulting in the product being delivered
  • Championed a culture of transparency by regularly communicating project progress, challenges, and risks to stakeholders, ensuring they are well-informed and empowered to make decisions
  • Proactively identified and addressed impediments hindering the team's progress during daily stand-up meetings and other Agile ceremonies

Education

Bs - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT

Skills

  • Scrum Methodology
  • Agile Coaching and Mentoring
  • Facilitation of Scrum Ceremonies
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Continuous Improvement Practices
  • Team Building and Motivation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Time Management and Time-boxing
  • Backlog Refinement & Grooming
  • Risk Management
  • Change Management
  • Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
  • JIRA, Confluence, or other Agile Tools
  • Communication and Active Listening

Accomplishments

  • Enhanced team collaboration—by fostering a collaborative team environment which resulted in a 30% team satisfaction scores in internal surveys. Built a self-organizing team by coaching members on Agile principles, resulting in a 20% increase in the team’s ability to meet sprint goals.
  • Facilitated Agile adoption—Led the successful adoption of Agile practices across the organization, resulting in a 35% faster delivery time for new product features and guiding a cross-functional team through a successful agile transformation reducing defects by 17% and improving delivery quality within the first quarter.
  • Successful sprint outcomes—90% of sprints were completed and all user stories were delivered which contributed to more relying release cycle.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and communication- Managed stakeholder expectations effectively and regularly communicated project process to key stakeholders. Which also build stakeholder’s trust and alignment.
  • Improved Product Delivery and customer satisfaction.

Certification

CSM

CSP

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Scrum Master

The Key
10.2023 - 07.2024

Scrum Master

EWCC
11.2020 - 02.2023

Bs - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Western Governors University

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