Faramade Fashanu

A Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum  (Certified Scrum Master®) with years of experience in project and delivery management, scrum and agile coaching, as well as client relationship management. With great understanding of the software development life cycle; I have a proven track record for driving change transformation and implementation. Working among cross-functional businesses and technical teams, I enjoy building practical solutions through my understanding of their business needs to achieve high results as well as coaching on how Agile can benefit teams and organisations.

April 2022 to Present HSBC Middle East Limited. Dubai
Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach
• Performing high-level project planning and scheduling
• Collaborating with the Solution Development Team and other appropriate stakeholders to create and agree with the Delivery Plan (the schedule of Project Increments and the Timeboxes within them)
• Monitoring progress against the baselined Delivery Plan
• Ensuring effective and timely communication and provision of information to project governance authorities (Business Sponsor, project board, steering committee, etc.) 
• Management of risks/issues, escalating in a timely manner and removing impediments
• Monitoring and ensuring appropriate involvement and communication between required members of the multi-disciplinary Solution Development Team
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies like daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint retrospective and sprint review, to keep a current understanding of the team’s progress and issues, and to flag up to the team, where necessary, any important external issues that that team need to be aware of
• Build an Agile structure in a non tech and previously waterfall environment
• Agile coaching and mindset transformation
• Management of sprints in accordance with the scrum framework
• Using other Agile frameworks to manage projects where Scrum is not applicable
• Monitor team capacity and velocity, utilising the lessons learned each sprint for a more efficient delivery process
• Initiative reporting both from a sprint perspective and a wider overall program level
• Facilitating and leading Agile Masterclasses and workshops
• PI planning assistance
• Motivating and ensuring empowerment of the teams to meet their objectives

Dec 2021 to April 2022 Cognizant. London.
Scrum Master

• Scrum Master on government institution projects
• Coach team members on the best agile and scrum practices
• Facilitation of all the agile ceremonies
• Assist the product owner to refine and maintain the product backlog
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity

Sept 2020 to Nov 2021 With Intelligence. London.
Scrum Master / Product Manager

• Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams
• Product owner on a team
• Facilitate daily scrum stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings
• Coach developers and product owners on Agile processes, including story point estimation 
• Identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the team’s success
• Improve team culture and processes through sprint retrospectives 
• Coach and mentor team members on agile standards and best practices
• Cultivate an environment of autonomy to allow delivery teams be self-organised
• Assist product owners in keeping a comprehensive refined product backlog
• Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency 
• Utilise the lessons from each delivery to strive towards increasing the value delivered
• Engage with fellow Scrum Masters to identify opportunities for improvement 
• Have a good working understanding of collaborative Agile tools like JIRA
• Support off-roadmap change activities related to the product delivery/experience
• Support the delivery product roadmap activities
• Contribute to the product roadmap

March 2020 till May 2020 Nivaura. London.
   Project Manager
• Project Planning, including looking at budget, timescales, etc.
• Client engagement and management throughout the full project lifecycle
• Delivering Projects in line with Project Management frameworks 
• Document creation such as the Functional Specification documentation etc.
• QA and testing

March 2019 till March 2020 Dynamo Software. London.
Project Manager / Customer Success

• Plan, manage and deliver projects to ensure a successful completion
• Assume responsibility for the initiation, development, and delivery of projects
• Produce the project definition to include scope, roles, budget, timescale and resources
• Prepare project plans asking input from technical resources
• Achieve sign off from clients and other stakeholders at key stages of the project
• Undertake post implementation previews of projects
• Use the Agile method to deliver projects
• Maintain and grow the recurring and consulting revenue
• Develop cross-functional partnerships with sales, implementations and other teams
• Develop strong customer relationships and serve in the role of advisor to customers
• Identify and mitigate client and key stakeholder risks

October 2017 – Mar 2019 Insurity. London. 
Project Manager/Account Manager

• Executing website change projects 
• Driving improvements on best practice for internal processes 
• Running workshops, regular project status meetings and onsite training
• Relationship manager of some of the world’s largest insurers and brokers – AIG international, Lloyd’s of London, Northern Marine Underwriters, XL, AXA and so on
•  Led a large XL website and Certificate rebranding project after the AXA buyout
• Gathering and documenting requirements from clients 
• Building and maintaining relationships with client executives and key business users to maximise new revenue opportunities through system enhancements and projects

April 2016 – October 2017 Diligent.  London.
Product Support Technician

• Data migration for Software integration
• Answering incoming support related queries
• Delivering remote training sessions and third-party software installations
• Creation and escalation of feature requests and bug reports
• Software and JIRA testing
• Working closely with various teams to bring about a timely conclusion to projects

July 2015 – March 2016  Golin International Ltd. London.
   Finance Assistant (Management Accounting)
• Manage the projects and accounts of prestigious clients like Unilever, Tesco, Sainsbury etc

Mar 2013 – July 2015  Bentley Designs. London.
Accounts Assistant (Sales and Purchase Ledger Accounting Management)

Aug 2012 – Mar 2013      Technicolor. London.
    Query Management Assistant
 

Sep 08 to July 2011 Brunel University, Uxbridge, London
BSc degree in Finance and Accounting with honours.