Nkafu Abenego Njiju, Scrum Master / Project Officer

Nkafu Abenego Njiju

Scrum Master / Project Officer

United Nation Association Canada

Location
Canada - Alberta
Education
Master's degree, Conflict and Diplomacy
Experience
3 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :3 years, 5 Months

Scrum Master / Project Officer at United Nation Association Canada
  • Canada - Ottawa
  • My current job since August 2021

• Coached team on data driven decision and direction which led to reducing 75% of waste in sprints.
• Led and coached three teams on Green Corps program- data migration effort to (Cloud) with a combined budget of $5, 000, 000 for the year with a cost saving for more than 25%.
• Ensured the application of agile framework to the development process to increase effectiveness of product development or architecture which led to consistent productivity in the team.
• Successfully resolved conflicts by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect while using JIRA to track progress of impediment backlog.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Investigated, identified, and removed impediments that affected the team to deliver the sprint goal resulting in meeting sprint goals in 98.9% of sprints.
• Enabled a continuous learning environment, identified ways to strengthen the team’s understanding of agile concepts and principles and ensure decisions were data driven.

Scrum Master at Alberta Health Services
  • Canada - Alberta
  • December 2020 to August 2021

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.
• Ensured accuracy and fast tracking and reporting Covid-19 flow with the used of CDOM
• Enhanced the current Covid-19 tracking and reporting App and web site with the help of NetCare
• Used JIRA boards to monitor progress of team and generate report to management.
• Promoted and empowered self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
• Utilized JIRA and Trello to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
• Coordinated improvement in continuous integration & development (CI/CD Pipeline) while enhancing knowledge on test-driven development (TDD & BDD). It has facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams that enhanced team’s performance.

Education

Master's degree, Conflict and Diplomacy
  • at University For Peace
  • April 2021
Bachelor's degree, Engineering Technology
  • at Saint Monica University
  • December 2016
Diploma, Project Planning and Management
  • at Pan African Institute of Development West Africa
  • December 2015
Higher diploma, civil and structural engineering design
  • at Catholic University of Buea
  • July 2014

Specialties & Skills

Designing , Teaching, Managing

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Memberships

SAFe
  • Member
  • April 2021
Scrum Master Network
  • Coach
  • May 2021

Hobbies

  • studying
    I have accomplish quite a lot in education
  • Football, Reading books, and learning new things