Patricia

• Collaborates with Senior Product Manager and team leads to plan, maintain, and prioritize engineering work via the Engineering JIRA board.
• Assists with the grooming, preparing, and prioritizing of Product Backlog items to ensure clarity, conciseness, and readiness for Developer and/or DevOps work. Ensures the Product Backlog is the single, centralized source of work for the Team using JIRA.
• Educates and supports the Product Owner on best practices for grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Guides teams and the organization to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to attain customer satisfaction.
• Contributes to establishing the Sprint Goal; monitor Sprint Progress; resolve and remove impediments to Sprint Workflow; drive In-Progress items to Done by collaborating with the Developers.
• Facilitates getting the work done without assigning, coercion, or dictating the work.
• Coach teams to build a safe and trusting environment where problems could be raised without retribution, blame, or judgment while emphasizing healing and problem-solving.
• Leads technical release planning in collaboration with engineering and product management.
• Aligns teams to Agile standards and practices, and mentor team members to be self-sufficient.
• Works proactively to remove project obstacles and develop solutions with the team.
• Ensures deliverables are reached and deadlines are met throughout the program lifecycle.
• Builds positive relationships with business collaborators, end-users, and product owners.
• Tracks, reflects, and communicates team metrics such as – velocity, blockage Patterns, WIP, Burndown Charts, Burn Up Charts, and sprint release progress.
• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects and bugs.
• Assists team with making appropriate forecasts through Product Backlog item (E.g., User Story) selection and task definition.

• Managed each project’s scope and timeline among 2 scrum teams.
• Coordinated daily stand-up meetings, facilitated and scheduled meetings, demo and followed local scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective, etc.)
• Coached scrum team members in Agile frameworks.
• Facilitated internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders).
• Assisted with both internal and external communication, improving visibility, transparency, and radiating information.
• Worked with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Resolved conflicts and removed obstacles that occurred within and outside team.
• Coached the scrum teams and participate in helping to remove impediments.
• Helped teams implement changes effectively.
• Ensured deliverables were up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Guided development teams to higher scrum maturity.
• Helped built a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoyed working on it.
• Properly managed the backlog and aided the team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprints.
• Created a positive and easy communication channel (team, product owner, stakeholders).
• Managed and built strong, collaborative relationships with team members, colleagues, executive leadership, and stakeholders.
• Addressed team dynamics, resolving conflict, and resource constraints.
• Fostered a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
• Feature, backlog, epic, and story tracking & Status Reporting to Key Stakeholders using Azure DevOps.
• Worked closely with Senior Product Manager to manage and maintain the planning, budgeting, and tracking of work intake and prioritization using Azure DevOps.