Sebastienne is a Business Analyst and Scrum Master for S&P Global Market Intelligence. Based out of New York City, her responsibility is essentially that of a project manager, ensuring her team updates are in on time everyday. While transitioning the organization from Waterfall to Scrum methodologies, Sebastienne prioritizes requests, schedules global meetings, and ultimately sees projects through to completion.
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My name is Sebastian Re-vatta and I work at S&P Global Market Intelligence as a Business Analyst and Scrum Master. As a Scrum Master, I'm basically a project manager and I just make sure that the team's updates are in every single day. I take those updates and I make sure that they don't have any blockers. The work that they needed to get done within that certain time frame is done. Since I work in technology, we work in software. Any defects that need to be addressed and I also need to make sure that our timelines are correct. Any milestones, deadlines, are all hit. I have to talk to our product owners and they need to let us know what is it that the customers want. How they want it to look and how it should act. So, all the logic, the front end, the back end. I look at that and ask them, hey I need this prioritized. I need you to tell me what absolutely must be done as part of MVP, so minimal viable product. Then we put it in a back log and then I speak with the team and we just go through each of the stories and we tell them hey, so this is what product wants and what do you think of this. What's the effort on this from development, QA, user acceptance testing, et cetera. Are there any technical limitations to this? What can we deliver within this time frame that they're asking for? And then, we go back to product and say hey this is what we can deliver, is this alright with you? Typically, product also sits in with these meetings and it's just a back and forth. I have to facilitate this because oftentimes they're not thinking on the same level and I have to get this all level based. I also have organizational level things that come down to me and they say hey, each team has to do this part, this change on the organizational level impacts your team and what they do 'cause your project is involved with this. I constantly have to manage change management, managing expectations of everybody. And just making sure everything fits and all our deliverables are in.
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