SR: S3 Finale - Leading with SCRUM w/ Stella Ihenacho

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Season 3 Finale of Skills Recharged on the Career Tipper podcast features Co-Founder of Nstar Technologies, Stella Ihenacho.

Stella Ihenacho is the Cofounder and Agile Faculty lead at NSTAR Technologies - Atlanta's leading provider of continuing education services- where she teaches the Scrum Master Comprehensive course providing career coaching and opportunities to reduce the earning and knowledge gap for minorities. Her professional experience includes managing complex programs/projects in various industries, including education, software development, the internet of things, and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to her passion for projects, she is also passionate about empowering women so that they don't allow fear to keep them from pursuing their dreams. Having experienced and understood how fear can cripple dreams and purpose, she founded Women Doing It Afraid, a community dedicated to helping women break through their fears with tools, workshops, and coaching so they can succeed in life. Stella is also a Senior Agile Practitioner at Red Hat, where she manages the Outer loop Developer Experience providing a unified experience for enterprise developers and an Agile Coach for multiple Developer Teams.

During this episode about Mastering SCRUM:

[2:30] Stella shares her journey to mastering the agile framework, SCRUM.

[5:48] Identifying transferrable skills related to SCRUM.

[8:31] What is SCRUM?

[10:37] Stells shares how to become certified in SCRUM.

[13:57] Improving teamwork through SCRUM.

[20:09] SCRUM Masters can generate buy-in from naysayers in the workplace.

[28:22] Insight on how SCRUM Masters can self-assess their progress on mastering the practice of SCRUM.

[33:14] Leading with SCRUM across disciplines.

[37:48] Stella's favorite productivity tools.

[38:36] Stella's most prized career lesson.

Connect with Stella:

https://nstartechnologies.com/