Muhammad Usman Muhammad Yousuf

Coaching and mentoring teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework.
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across cross-functional teams.
Using Agile methods and processes to coach product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies.
Ensuring user stories were ordered, well defined, and ready to be worked on by the team.
Facilitating team in taking care of the impediments and blockers and making sure they are resolved before effecting their Sprint commitment.
Guiding Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices efficiently.
Facilitating Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, and Release Planning and making sure all the relevant stakeholders are part of the meetings.
Managing all the Scrum process from initiation to management to delivery.
Supporting Product Owner and Stakeholders to ensure the highest quality products delivered to customers.
Develop Team Capacity Sheet to ensure the development team is assigned tasks with optimum allocation and tracking progress by Daily Scrum and Burndown Chart.
Facilitating Product Owner to create Quarterly Roadmaps.
Energizing the team to increase their efficiency by arranging various topic discussions on how we can improve and what needs to be changed to make the process better.
Created a concrete Scrum document to implement throughout Scrum Framework in all teams throughout the organization.
Managing and tracking projects using JIRA, Trello and Confluence.

Managed and Led Meridian Automation project from start to end to reduce cost by 30% and 70% risk of data loss..
Led cross-functional teams. Focused on complex technology aspects building business values, and development and delivery efficiencies, using agile system design, development and delivery methodology.
Organized and Managed Scrum ceremonies for all the projects. Ensured all Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Retro, Daily Standup etc. are held properly and shared daily signoffs for all the ceremonies with PMO and Higher Management.
Developed Sprint Planning, Sprint Health, Sprint Success and several other reports for Audits and PMO.
Organized Steering committee meetings for all projects bi-weekly and presented progress and status to stakeholders.
Managed project timelines and communicated with management and clients to ensure project progress satisfactorily.
Was responsible to resolve conflicts among team members and stakeholders.
Made sure that project is planned with relative estimates and resources and tracked projects throughout the sprints.
Used JIRA and Trello to manage the Projects.

Monitored and Tracked Progress of all the projects assigned.
Developed detail Project Plans using MS Project.
Made sure every project went through the defined Development Life Cycle.
Reviewed the requirements from the business team and create BRD accordingly. If project is to be done from the Vendor, forward the requirements to Vendor and get a solution document accordingly. Made sure all the requirements are covered. Also arranged meetings between the Vendor and the business team to finalize the scope.
Developed Project Charter, WBS, Critical Paths of all the projects assigned.
Managed Vendors and follow up on the projects. Kept a close eye on the schedule to make sure project is going as per the schedule.
Developed and managed Communication Plan between the Vendor and Team for all the projects.
Created Cost Memos, negotiate and approved from the higher management.
Made sure that the required hardware/software are available to deploy Projects for UAT and Production.
Reviewed Test Cases created for SIT, QA and UAT to make sure all the valid test cases are submitted on JIRA with priorities.
Arranged meetings/sessions between the Vendor/Internal IT Team and the Business team to resolve conflicts, made minutes of the meeting and shared with all the stakeholders.
Created Project Closure report, update Stakeholder and Risk Register at every phase review.
Managed projects using both, Agile and Waterfall, methods.

Led Amazon FBM management project to save 70% cost for the company.
Managed projects using Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
Developed Project Management Plans and Project Schedules using MS Project and Excel.
Created Project WBS, Cost Baseline, Stakeholder and Risk Registers.
Allocated appropriate resources needed for projects and managed resources pool throughout the Organization.
Prepared budget based on scope of work and resource requirements. Track project costs in order to keep project within budget.
Provided project updates on a consistent basis to clients and management by developing multiple Project Reports and Charts.
Managed Change Requests and created Change Control Strategies to control and monitor changes.
Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Sprint Reviews.
Tracked projects using JIRA and MS Project.

Developed and managed a MIS system to keep track of USAID schools.
Led a team of developers and QA and evaluating their performance.
Created project documentation such as Project Charter, Schedule, Integration and Quality plans.
Facilitated several trainings and seminars.
Communicated project plans to stakeholders.
Developed schedule and work plans for Deloitte projects.
Involved in projects budgeting and evaluation activities.
Recognized in successful negotiations for projects cost, schedule and resources.
Assist USAID team in developing several processes to manage the whole project efficiently.
Assist monitoring team in writing and communicating monthly performance to USAID.
Also involved in managing projects of Government like Monitoring and Evaluation tool, eSMC application.

Led team to develop Employee Tracking Application to track attendance and manage Payroll.
Managed all projects and web applications of the company.
Involved in developing project plans and business documents.
Assigned tasks and projects to team members.
Reviewed completed tasks to ascertain compliance with standards.
Daily team meetings and project status updates.
Guide the team and guide them if they are stuck somewhere.
Research and learn new technologies and frameworks trending.
Correspond to clients and trained them to use applications.
Created several presentations of company’s products and presented it to clients.
Sent weekly and monthly team and projects status reports to Management.

Developed a financial AI application to improve company’s Loan Management work.
Created business and technical documents for many projects.
Developed Web Applications and Portals using Codeigniter, jQuery, WordPress and custom PHP.
Developed content management website using WordPress.
Managed in-house projects.
Managed and debugged iOS applications.

Developed sites using PHP, MYSQL.
Developed client's websites mostly on WordPress.
Developed Facebook type website using WordPress and custom Mingle Plugin.
Developed a branding website with admin panel on custom PHP, jQuery and AJAX.
Developed E-Commerce websites using WordPress/WooCommerce and OpenCart.

Developed web applications on PHP, MYSQL, Smarty, WordPress, Zoho CRM and Codeigniter

Worked on PHP, Joomla, Open ERP