Margaret Buam

Senior Scrum Master at Nieman Marcus
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Concord, North Carolina, United States, US

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Credentials

  • SaFe Scrum Master
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
    Scrum.org

Experience

  • Nieman Marcus
    • United States
    • Retail
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Scrum Master
      • Jun 2022 - Present

      • Used JIRA and later migrated to Rally as management tools to maintain product and sprint backlogs to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, status, reports and burn down charts. • Conducted Iteration planning meetings (IPMS), Daily stand-ups, Review/demo (technical and business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release) • Helped build a network of Scrum masters, Product Owners and technical Leads within the Scrum team to resolve complex infrastructure issues and maximize product development opportunities. • Published Agile reports such as Burndown Chart, Burnup Chart, Velocity Chart, and Sprint Report to Stakeholders and senior management. • Eradicated impediments and obstacles as well as driving continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities. Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers. Show less

  • JOJNT IT SOLUTION
    • San Antonio, Texas, United States
    • Sr. Scrum Master
      • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

      • Track risks and dependencies at program level for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blocker to increase productivity and reduce defects. • Used Media platforms like WebEx, Skype, and Microsoft Teams for collaboration efforts with collocated and distributed teams. • Trained teams on how to write good user stories and need to stay within timeboxes and build good interpersonal skills that boost the teams’ spirit while inspiring trust, leading to goals being achieved. • Tracked and communicated team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress while ensuring stakeholders always had visible information radiators for transparency. • Introduced the incorporation of Agile best practices like continuous integration, automated testing, accountability, and paired programming, peer/code review all in a bid to build in quality. • Coached team and product owner against over-commitment, while assisting with managing backlog items by coordinating and participating in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level sizing(story points) for backlog items. Show less

  • California Bank & Trust
    • United States
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Dec 2016 - Dec 2020

      • Helped Product Owner/ Product Advocate/ Project Management continuously maintain, refine, and prioritize their product backlogs. • Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer of the ART in coordinating dependencies between various scrum teams. • Helped my teams write and split User stories as well as break down epics appropriately based on business requirements. • Used Jira and Confluence to create and track work items through the SDLC for both Scrum and Kanban teams. • Tracked team progress by creating and reviewing sprint burn down charts and Release burn down charts. • Performed sprint retrospectives to capture lessons learned as well as discuss improvement items in future sprints. • Coached teams into becoming self-organized and motivated by championing all things agile. • Worked closely with other scrum masters; product owners and business partners to optimize all agile based processes. Show less

  • IBC Bank
    • United States
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

      • Played a pivotal role as the servant leader to the Scrum team by designing and implementing Agile best practices. • Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint retrospective, sprint demos, story grooming, Release planning. • Work on SAFe framework with other Scrum teams, by attending and actively participating in Scrum of Scrums and Agile Release Train syncs to highlight and address any possible inter team dependencies. • Had regular meetings with offshore team to understand progress, challenges and remove blockers for the team. Provide guidance and direction to offshore and on-site teams. • Worked with geographically dispersed teams in implementing Agile Framework with Scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. • Constantly worked with product owner to make sure the Product Backlog was healthy and relevant • Responsible for facilitating the scrum process and ensuring the team is delivering value. Show less

Education

  • International University Bamenda
    Bachelors In Business Administration

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