Juzimejo Opreh

A Proactive and goal-oriented Certified Scrum Master with Five (5) years of experience in coaching team members on Agile practices, values, principles and facilitating scrum ceremonies.

Adept at facilitating Backlog refinement, best practices such as story splitting, estimation, and capacity planning.

I coach, encourage, and lead development teams transitioning from waterfall to Agile methodology.

Tolerance for ambiguity, self-motivated with proven adaptability and able to take and adjust to existing frameworks and guidelines if needed.

Strong understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including release planning and portfolio backlogs, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile best Practices.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate and work effectively with co-located teams and distributed teams.

Knowledge of servant leadership roles, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, and team empowerment by promoting transparency, adoption, and courage in a creative safe environment.

Removes all obstacles to project team efficiency and effectiveness; reach out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal and ensures cross-team coordination.

Coach, mentor, train and teach team members with diverse personalities and from different organizations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for them and the organization

Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design strategies for adopting Agile best practices

Guide teams on how to stay on track with Agile techniques and use workshops for development teams, as well as for key stakeholders

Improved communications between development teams and collaborated with stakeholders to increase each team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective

Collaborate with Product Owners to support short- and long-term release planning and ensured the product backlog is groomed, prioritized, and maintained

Identify and assist development teams to remove blockers and Impediments

I organize, facilitate, and support all team events (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum,

Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective)

Create JIRA dashboards for my new teams to provide project visibility

I facilitate a positive team atmosphere where communication, collaboration, and

teamwork defined our culture

I ensure team members were collectively responsible for all aspects of agreed work

(analysis, development, testing, and documentation)

Fostered knowledge sharing and assisted with the creation and delivery of best practices

documentation and training materials

Ensure that the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) are prepared for program

Increment (PI) planning events and components coming out of those events

Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, standup meetings, Sprint reviews and retrospectives sessions.

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.

Use the Trello board to Manage project backlogs, assign and track user stories and compile releases

Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on the product backlog.

Education

- BachelorofScience:ComputerScience Houdegbe North-American University