Arun Kumar

• Implementing, coaching and empowering 8-member team on Scrum/Agile methodologies for 2-week sprints
• Facilitating sessions on Agile to educate the management and team on its principles, values, and benefits
• Facilitating Impact Mapping and Story Mapping workshops to identify and define priority features for upcoming sprints
• Facilitating planning sessions to finalize MVP, break it down into epics and further down to user stories
• Established best practice processes between Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Engineering to ensure a shared understanding of requirements has been established.
• Guiding team to slice larger user stories into smaller ones (INVEST) and refine the backlog 
• Driving user story estimation sessions using Affinity Estimation and Planning Poker (Fibonacci series) techniques
• Driving sessions with PO and Development Team to finalize on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
• Planning sprint goals with team based on their bandwidth, and ensuring that we have a healthy backlog with next sprint’s user stories to be estimated 
• Leveraging team to tackle obstacles reducing wait time whilst working on a resolution
• Setting up ground rules for the team to ensure that the Scrum framework is embraced and followed
• Ensured the teams are undertaking agreed ceremonies within the agile process and consistency is built across the delivery teams.
• Ensured open communication culture is embedded between IT and business stakeholders.
• Driving team to use Jira/Confluence to maintain all documentation (including induction material) in a common repository 
• Responsible for starting and completing sprints in JIRA and assigning user stories to current sprint from the product backlog
• Identifying risks and issues proactively and mitigating them to enable smooth delivery

Liaising with SMs to ensure the swift removal of blockers to meet every team’s deadline.

Scrum Master with 12 years of IT experience 

Masters in computer application