Kenneth Lanyuy

 Manage two Scrum teams simultaneously with collocated and distributed team members  Had regular meetings with offshore team to understand progress, challenges and remove blockers for the scrum team. Provide agile guidance and direction to offshore and onsite scrum teams.  Helped the Product Owner in grooming and prioritizing the product backlog.  Facilitated Scrum meetings: Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Epic and Story Estimation, Sprint Review and Demo, and Retrospective.  Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams  Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog.  Tracked team progress by creating sprint burndown charts and Release burndown charts  Perform sprint retrospectives to capture lessons learned and what can be improved in next sprint.  Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train.  Onboarded new team members and trained them in using approved enterprise agile delivery tools like Jira, confluence, video conferencing tools like Skype for business and zoom  Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burndown charts, as well as other information radiators.  Helped the team to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics and estimate user stories.  Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline  Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.  Facilitates self-organization of the team to accomplish objectives and continuously improve processes.  Educated scrum team and business on writing User Stories which are Ready to Work

 Provided overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices  Arranged, facilitated, and scheduled Scrum meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper adaptation process is in use. This includes assisting with backlog refinement, release and sprint planning, retrospective and daily stand-ups.  Drove delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity  Facilitated the sprint review and demo and the sprint retrospective. Captured and distributed feedback.  Partnered with Product owner the grooming and maintaining of the Product Backlog  Guided team in self-organization; encouraging and motivating team to focus on iteration goals  Helped the team improve on their journey towards continuous delivery, which includes technical practices that promote continuous integration, continuous deployment and designing the solution for release.  Provided regular and open communication across the program to all stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.  Eliminated impediments by actively addressing issues so the team can remain focused on achieving the goals of the sprint. Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying, and mitigating issues and risks.  Researched Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.  Properly managed the backlog and aided team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprint  Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions and remove impediments  Properly managed the backlog and aided team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprint

 Participated in meetings within the organization to ensure that scrum was adopted properly at team and organizational level.  Explored a variety of team building efforts to promote professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, with the goal of attaining a high-performance team.  Removed and mitigated impediments during sprints in terms of issues and risks.  Guided teams to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to do so.  Participated in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices  Created and published weekly status reports and weekly dashboards  Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and other metrics  Built a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.  Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

 Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives,  Explored a variety of team building efforts to promote professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, with the goal of attaining a high-performance team  Empowered the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings  Removed impediments for the development team using internal and external resources  Used key Scrum metrics (burn down, velocity) to help manage delivery of committed work  Managed sprint backlog items and tasks  Partnered with product owner in the grooming and maintaining of the product backlog  Facilitated the team efforts towards continuous improvement of ongoing Project realization.  Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency and how information is being received