An experienced A-CSM certified Scrum Master & Agile Coach specialising in collaborating with remote development teams. Confident in teaching and enforcing Agile methodologies and managing full project lifecycles resulting in timely delivery, cost efficiency and achieving agreed specifications.

University of Portsmouth

·      Coaching multiple teams undergoing an agile transformation resulting in a successful shift from Waterfall methodology to either Scrum (dev teams) or Kanban (DevOps and events teams)
·      Working closely with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to transition and train them in developing their roles and responsibilities
·      Aligning with business leaders to support in adopting top down growth mindset, leading to shorter development lifecycles 
·      Facilitating workshops and training sessions for teams including user stories, estimation techniques and backlog prioritisation
·      Supported in Jira implementation including running training sessions on setting up Jira instances resulting in a more efficient method of tracking delivery
·      Provided coaching for individuals and teams on agile methodology, using techniques such as active listening, powerful questions, and visualisation
·      Trained teams in how to use empirical data to assist with making continuous improvements and improving commitment to deliverables
·      Assisted business leaders with adopting agile into their strategy by restructuring teams to align to organisational goals

Agile Coach

·      Maintenance and development of cloud-based demonstration software platform 
·      Coordinating all Scrum events (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Retrospective) and generating sprint performance reports across two Scrum teams
·      Management of two Scrum teams, involving the allocation of work based on resource estimations and prioritising stakeholder requirements
·      Supporting developers in keeping point estimation and agile methodology consistent during Backlog Refinement sessions
·      Introducing and enforcing development process improvements including coaching DevOps team in Agile practices 
·      Adapting team workload and prioritisation based on previous sprint outcomes, resource changes, roadblocks and changing stakeholder priorities, resulting in a more efficient software delivery lifecycle.
·      Managing release planning across multiple Scrum teams with testing team including improving announcements to key stakeholders
·      Collaborating with global cross-functional teams including UI, UX, API, testing, dev ops and technical writer teams 
·      Running Platform Town Hall meetings, resulting in improved communications between platform team and demo developers
·      Bridging communication between developers and wider organisation teams, improving efficiency in solving issues
·      Training support for Product Owner and Technical Writer new starters, as well as mentoring of Junior Scrum Master
·      Working with Product Owner for requirement gathering, story writing, backlog grooming and acquiring UX designs 
·      Liaising with testing and development teams to ensure continuous testing is prioritised throughout sprints 
·      Creating project scopes and documentation, including quarterly report for upper management detailing deliverables achieved and next quarter planning 
·      Experience with JIRA, Rally and aHa project management systems

Scrum Master

Liam Underwood

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