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HABIBA ADRIEL HAMZA

Product Owner
Bristol

Summary

Certified IT service delivery with professional experience in managing the development of highly valuable digital products while collaborating with globally distributed teams. Experienced in facilitating business and technical stakeholder engagements to obtain outcomes by gathering user requirements, defining product vision, strategy, building project road map, creating, maintaining and prioritizing product backlog items. Expertise in designing functional systems that provides optimal value to evolving business needs.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Agile Product Owner

Solution Social Networking
08.2022 - Current
  • Collaborating with a globally distributed team for the development of a social network
  • Ensuring user requirements are accurately documented and prioritized Using criteria such as MOSCOW, RICE and DEEP
  • Translating valuable user requirements into Epics, Features and writing User stories and acceptance criteria for the product backlog items
  • Conducting optimization and prioritization of Product backlog items using INVEST criteria during backlog refinement meetings
  • Conducting User Acceptance testing and facilitating Sprint reviews with stakeholders

Senior System Analyst & Product Development Lead

Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria
01.2016 - Current
  • Defining the Organizational Vision, goal and product roadmap of the election project plan according to evolving needs
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work
  • Monitoring the development team to ensure the sprint backlog is up to date for easy tracking and monitoring progress of work flow during product development
  • Providing JIRA admin activities for the scrum team by using metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity
  • Planning and tracking sprints closely and production of executive summary reports for the management (creating boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL)
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery

System Analyst & Agile Scrum Master

Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria
01.2013 - 01.2016
  • Guided several teams in the organization on how to use scrum and agile methodologies for the execution of electoral projects and created opportunities to empower teams under my supervision by regular inspection and adaptation which led to higher agile maturity
  • Organized & facilitated Scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning and sprint review and was responsible for resolutions of issues/blockers
  • Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the team and management of the Organization and coordinated directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies
  • Effectively guided Scrum and Kanban teams in the Organization and generated agile mindset across teams through conversations, role-based coaching, and role-playing exercises which allowed the team to reach agile maturity faster
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Library And Information Technology

Federal University of Technology
Minna, Nigeria
04.2004 - 07.2008

Skills

    Scrum methodology

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Certification

Professional Affiliation/ Other Certificates

Project Management Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Master PSM1
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner PSPO1
  • ITIL V3 (I.T service Management) Foundation
  • Prince 2 (Project Management)

Timeline

Agile Product Owner

Solution Social Networking
08.2022 - Current

Senior System Analyst & Product Development Lead

Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria
01.2016 - Current

System Analyst & Agile Scrum Master

Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria
01.2013 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Library And Information Technology

Federal University of Technology
04.2004 - 07.2008
HABIBA ADRIEL HAMZAProduct Owner