Gbemisola Aderibigbe, Project Manager in Montreal, Canada
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Gbemisola Aderibigbe

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Bio

Bemi's expertise is in Agile transformation and building high-performing teams with the Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum, and Kanban. She has led the implementation of strategic product development roadmaps across several industries, conducting process and people change while balancing strategic and tactical approaches. Bemi's proficiency spans Agile release train management, change management, process standardization and improvement, program increment planning, coaching, mentoring, and training.

Project Highlights

Release Train Engineer
Implemented various program and portfolio management improvement initiatives that identified redundant processes, eliminated waste, and increased performance.

Expertise

  • Change Management
  • Coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Jira
  • PI Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Work Experience

Release Train Engineer

2022 - PRESENT
Levi Strauss
  • Conducted workshops that improved efficiency and collaboration across the ART, such as feature splitting strategies, story mapping, value stream mapping, PI objective best practices, and the done-and-ready definition of the program.
  • Facilitated ART ceremonies such as system demos, Scrum of Scrums, PI planning, and ART syncs toward a productive outcome.
  • Partnered with business owners, product managers, and product owners to help assure strategy, vision, and road map alignment and execution.
  • Served as the key subject matter expert with specialized knowledge in coordinating, leading, and coaching multiple Agile teams of teams.

Agile Coach | SAFe Implementation Lead

2022 - 2022
HP Inc
  • Analyzed and made recommendations for improvements to the existing Agile organizational practices and patterns from the enterprise to the team level, increasing program performance by 10%.
  • Improved commitment to program goals by 15%, enabling a safe environment for healthy conflict, treating people fairly, and behaving consistently through difficult situations, resulting in trust among critical stakeholders.
  • Promoted the Agile culture and mindset across the organization; led teams and influenced leaders and partners through coaching and mentoring as they learned and adopted Agile practices that increased value delivered by 10% across multiple branches.

Release Train Engineer

2021 - 2022
TD Bank
  • Produced and administered program artifacts that enhanced the facilitated program increment (PI) events that drove consistent, repeatable program delivery, accelerating profitable growth and customer success by 25%.
  • Developed and implemented various enterprise and service provider technology solutions resulting in an increased 25% net promoter score and 65 % overall customer satisfaction.
  • Managed and optimized the value flow across the Agile Release Train (ART) by promoting continuous delivery, eliminating 15% of waste from the system, and improving the transparency of work across different levels of the program and lines of business.

Agile Coach | Senior Scrum Master

2020 - 2021
Tecsys Incorporation
  • Created a vision of high performance, which drove the adoption of key engineering practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and DevOps across scrum teams, thereby increasing the quality of work delivered.
  • Facilitated several team improvement workshops such as story writing and splitting, story mapping, and other good practices to improve how teams work.
  • Introduced a community of practices across different domains—architecture, business analysis, programming—within the line of business (LOB), which helped to increase knowledge and domain best practices.

Scrum Master

2019 - 2020
Schneider Electric
  • Led and facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint reviews, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
  • Coached and reinforced the Agile framework and practices to team members and stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with the technical team to improve the quality of the product by 70%.

Scrum Master | Project Manager

2018 - 2018
Interlerad Medical Systems
  • Coordinated the release process along with other relevant departments within the organization.
  • Coached and reinforced the Agile framework and practices to team members and stakeholders.
  • Employed tools, including physical or virtual boards, collaboration, or productivity software, to maximize team effectiveness.

Project History

Release Train Engineer

Implemented various program and portfolio management improvement initiatives that identified redundant processes, eliminated waste, and increased performance.

The project required executing the Scaled Agile process across multiple business groups to ensure the project's successful implementation. I led the team's progress throughout the Scaled Agile process implementation. My role involved the proactive analysis and recommendations for improvements to the existing Agile organizational practices and patterns from the enterprise to the team level. The Agile culture and mindset were promoted across the organization via the leadership of teams and influence towards leaders and partners through coaching, training, and mentoring as they learned and adopted Agile practices that increased value delivered by 10% across multiple departments.

Scaled Agile Implementation Lead and Agile Coach for a Unified Cloud Program

Led the implementation of a strategic product development roadmap achieving over 80% completion of deliverables.

This project's undertaking involved improving the teams' capacity by creating and driving the implementation of the monitoring metrics used to gauge the teams' efficiency and effectiveness across the program. I promoted the Agile culture and mindset across the organization, including leading teams and influencing leaders and partners through coaching, training, and mentoring as they learned and adopted Agile practices.

Release Train Engineering

Led, supported, coached, and mentored a diverse team of scrum masters, product owners, and product managers across different time zones.

My contribution to the legacy of building the Agile Centre of Excellence and Communities of Practice led to the standardization of Agile best practices across the enterprise. The Agile culture and mindset were promoted across the organization, which involved leading teams and influencing leaders and partners through coaching, training, and mentoring as they learned and adopted Agile practices that increased value delivered by 10% across multiple teams. The improvement of teams' capacity was a direct result of creating and driving the implementation of the monitoring metrics used to gauge the teams' efficiency and effectiveness across the program.

Education

2009 - 2010

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing

University of Aberdeen - Aberdeen, Scotland

1998 - 2002

Bachelor's Degree in Classics

University of Ibadan - Ibadan, Nigeria

Certifications

FEBRUARY 2022 - PRESENT

SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Scaled Agile

SEPTEMBER 2021 - PRESENT

SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Scaled Agile

JUNE 2021 - PRESENT

SAFe 4 Agilist

Scaled Agile

AUGUST 2015 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

Skills

Tools

Slack, Jira, Zoom, Confluence, Miro, MURAL, Google Workspace

Paradigms

Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Servant Leadership, Lean, Kanban

Industry Expertise

Financial Services

Other

Teams, Facilitation, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Agile Transformation, Process Improvement, Risk Management, Agile Coaching, Team Mentoring, Teaching, Software Release Management, Scrum Master, Microsoft Teams, Jira Align, Conflict Resolution, Coaching, PI Planning, Dependency Management, Product Roadmaps, Microsoft Office, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Agile Program Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Organization, Research, Networking, Presentations, Communication, Time Management, Problem Management, Active Listening, Teamwork, Collaboration

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