John Chiatu Bimi
Scrum Master
Schloßbleiche 18, ,Wuppertal
Summary
Result-oriented Scrum Master offering over four years of rich and qualitative experience in agile coaching in a complex cross-functional environment. Adept at speaking and writing in English with ability to apply interpersonal skills to global projects. Strong ability to lead teams, coach/mentor, develop user stories and apply agile methodologies that would enable teams to build high-value products quickly and effectively.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master and OKR Coach
Eurowings Digital GmbH
07.2022 - Current
- Spearheaded the agile transformation journey for the Data and Business Intelligence (BI) squad from Waterfall teams to Scrum teams and empowered the team to self-organize and grow cross-functionally
- Front-led change and continuous improvements, which resulted in increasing the productivity of Data & BI squad by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
- Mentoring, coaching & transforming teams towards Agility and making efforts to let the team deliver with high quality and high productivity.
- Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, paired programming, code reviews, transparency, which resulted in the realization of velocity improvement of more than 20%
- Coached the team to adopt knowledge sharing techniques such as paired programming an Hackathons with improved team cross-functionality.
- Supporting Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined prioritizing to maximize value and using and elaborating on users’ stories to be ready for upcoming 1-2 sprints.
- Supporting the implementing agility in the software development team responsible for booking funnel for Eurowings
- Ensuring team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques like splitting user stories.
- Removing impediments and protecting team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
- Facilitating Daily Scrum, Sprint planning sessions, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. ensuring all participants understand the purpose of a ceremony and keep to the time box.
- Frequently collaborating and sharing experiences with other Scrum Masters in the company as a part of Community of Practice (CoP)
OKR Coach
Eurowings Digital GmbH
10.2022 - Current
- Help teams align their goals with the organization's strategic objectives.
- Assist teams in designing effective OKRs by providing guidance on setting ambitious yet achievable objectives and measurable key results.
- Help teams define appropriate metrics and indicators to track progress and evaluate success.
- Provide individual and group coaching sessions to educate teams on the OKR methodology, best practices, and techniques for effective implementation.
- Support teams in understanding the purpose and benefits of OKRs and guide them in overcoming challenges throughout the process.
- Regularly monitor teams' progress towards their OKRs and analyze the key results data by Identify trends, potential bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
- Facilitating retrospectives and lessons learned sessions. Encourage teams to reflect on their OKR performance by identifying areas for growth
- Support teams in refining their OKR process over time to optimize effectiveness.
Scrum Master/UX Designer
Water Data Portal for the Victorian State Government
06.2021 - 06.2022
- Facilitated Scrum events – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Facilitating effective communication and working relationships between Scrum team, Product Owner, stakeholders, and third-party vendors
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Conducted user research to understand user needs and pain points when searching user data.
- Building interactive prototypes based on user journeys to improve the aesthetics of the water portal.
Scrum Master
Securian Financial, St Paul, Minnesota USA
11.2020 - 05.2021
- Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment, and role training, which resulted in the realization of velocity improvement of more than 80%
- Spearheaded the agile transformation journey for several projects (Waterfall Teams to Scrum Teams and Empowered Teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally)
- Institutionalized the implementation of Kanban into Maintenance Teams and led them through continuous improvement mindset, which resulted in significant improvement in cycle time.
- Front-led change and continuous improvements, which resulted in increasing the productivity of Scrum Teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo Bank, Minneapolis - MN USA
07.2019 - 10.2020
- Mentoring, coaching & transforming teams towards Agility and making efforts to let the Team deliver with high quality and high productivity.
- Training Scrum Masters to Facilitate Kanban boards and scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives& daily scrum)
- Facilitating the Creation of Definition of Ready (DoR) and ensuring DoR is followed throughout the program, conducting the revision session to DOR as per needed.
- Program-level Scrums of Scrum, identification of the program risks and helping team collaborate to find solutions.
- Ensuring the stories are sized according to sizing guidance, maintaining a guideline for estimations, and publishing among the team as part of coaching.
- Generating reports Sprint Health Assessment Dashboard Sprinting, Sprint Burn down / Sprint Burn up, Sprint Cumulative Flow, Sprint Capacity by Team Member & Dependency Status Dashboard
Education
Master of Science - Agricultural Resource Management
University of Bonn Germany
Bonn07.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Geography Teacher Education
University of Yaounde 1
Cameroon06.2004
Skills
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile Coaching
- Scrum, Kanban
- Portfolio Kanban
- SAFe
- Jira, Confluence, Figma, Miro
- Stakeholder Management
- Microsoft office
- Conflict Resolution
- Workshops and Training
- Facilitation
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
- Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
- Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) (In progress)
- Agile Project Management
- Certified OKR Professional
- Managing Team Conflicts
- Introduction to Digital Facilitation
- Workshop Facilitation
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Design Thinking
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (in progress)
Languages
English (proficient)
German (B1)
French (B1)
Timeline
OKR Coach
Eurowings Digital GmbH
10.2022 - Current
Scrum Master and OKR Coach
Eurowings Digital GmbH
07.2022 - Current
Scrum Master/UX Designer
Water Data Portal for the Victorian State Government
06.2021 - 06.2022
Scrum Master
Securian Financial, St Paul, Minnesota USA
11.2020 - 05.2021
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo Bank, Minneapolis - MN USA
07.2019 - 10.2020
Master of Science - Agricultural Resource Management
University of Bonn Germany
Bachelor of Arts - Geography Teacher Education
University of Yaounde 1
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
- Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
- Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) (In progress)
- Agile Project Management
- Certified OKR Professional
- Managing Team Conflicts
- Introduction to Digital Facilitation
- Workshop Facilitation
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Design Thinking
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (in progress)
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