Mazahir Hashimli

Mazahir took on the role of both Scrum Master and Team Leader, playing a central role in implementing and anchoring agile principles and processes within the organization.

Key Responsibilities Included:

• Guiding and developing team members through regular one-on-one meetings, coaching, and feedback sessions, ensuring teams reached their full potential.

• Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews) to ensure optimal team collaboration, continuous improvement, and seamless workflow.

• Advising on agile methodologies by offering support and training in agile principles and practices and tailoring processes to improve team maturity and productivity.

• Ensuring technical and functional compliance by working closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, and business stakeholders to align deliverables with business goals.

• Monitoring and improving delivery metrics like velocity to ensure tasks were completed within defined timelines and plans.

• Using Jira for task planning, sprint delivery coordination, and maintaining transparent dashboards to track progress.

• Managing the operational "RUN" phase, ensuring compliance with service level objectives (SLO) and rapid incident resolution.

• Optimizing Accelerate metrics (Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Restore) to enhance the development process’s efficiency.

• Budget management, including cost control and project expense tracking to ensure cost-effectiveness.

• Delivering regular progress reports to management and stakeholders, providing full insights into project status and key achievements.

Mazahir ensured strong collaboration between teams and departments, maintaining close communication with Product Owners, Project Managers, Tech Leads, and business stakeholders to facilitate seamless execution and on-time delivery of projects for Cdiscount and other key clients.

In the role of Scrum Master at Societe Generale, Mazahir played a crucial part in a significant project focused on developing a robust Know Your Client (KYC) solution. The project aimed to create a sophisticated system to evaluate Societe Generale clients' eligibility by conducting comprehensive checks on various aspects.

This involved verifying client identities, ensuring the absence of fraud, assessing credit scores, monitoring for any criminal activities, and confirming the authenticity of clients' information.

Scrum Master

In his capacity as a Scrum Master, Mazahir took on a multifaceted role that involved both facilitating Scrum ceremonies and serving as a servant leader.

Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation:

Orchestrated and led essential Scrum ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demo, Sprint Review, and Retrospective sessions.

Servant Leadership:

Embraced a servant leadership approach, focusing on removing impediments and barriers that could potentially hinder the development team's progress.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

Fostered collaboration with various stakeholders, including Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other project actors, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.

Metrics and Measurement:

Utilized various metrics, such as Burndown charts, to provide a clear visualization of the team's progress and to identify areas for improvement.

Agile Tools Expertise:

Demonstrated proficiency in Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence, as well as employing Kanban boards to optimize workflow and enhance project transparency.

Continuous Improvement:

Advocated for continuous improvement by encouraging the team to embrace agile principles and adapt their practices to enhance efficiency.

Team Collaboration:

Acted as a catalyst for fostering effective communication and collaboration within the team, ensuring a cohesive and motivated working environment.

Brønnøysund Register Centre is a Norwegian government agency responsible for maintaining public registers and providing information related to businesses and corporations. They offer a range of services including registration of new businesses, updating company information, and providing access to public records.

Mazahir had a role as Scrum Master and Solution Architect in this project. As the Scrum Master, Mazahir was responsible for ensuring that the project team followed Agile principles and practices, and for facilitating communication and collaboration among team members.

As the Solution Architect, Mazahir played a key role in designing the technical solution for the project and ensuring that it met the requirements and needs of the users.

Scrum Master

Coaching of agile work methods where development and planning in iterations with production setting of deliveries through Sprints.

Guide and coach, the team and make sure that the work is constantly driven forward towards the defined sprint goals.

Establish a close collaboration across all roles and functions.

Lead Scrum ceremonies (daily standup, grooming, planning, review, retrospective)

Facilitate communication and transparency within and outside the team

Assess and coach Scrum maturity of the team

Develop sprint maps for coordination with other teams and monitor delivery

Remove impediments for the project team and work with leaders to prevent recurring issues

Determine team capacity and create work breakdown structures and tasks

Increase team efficiency and promote quality delivery to the client

Foster a safe and trusting environment for problem-solving

Solution Architect

Analyze business requirements and create technical solutions that meet the project objectives

Design and oversee the implementation of scalable and robust systems

Evaluate technology solutions to ensure they align with business objectives.

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that solutions are delivered on-time.