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Joel Griffin
Scrum Master with experience in team flow, impediment removal, facilitation, predictability, and improvement. Practical work includes Sprint planning, Retrospectives, Impediment tracking, Flow metrics.
Experience
Rockwell Automation
Milwaukee · United States
Scrum Master
Mar 2022 - now
- Facilitated Scrum sprint planning using Jira capacity, dependencies, and a clear sprint goal; coached the team to split unfinished work into testable increments rather than rolling every ticket forward.
- Used Agile retrospectives to trace repeated blocked work and agree one improvement with an owner; checked the next sprint for changed behavior instead of counting how many retrospective actions were created.
- Used cycle-time distributions and blocked-ticket history to prepare retrospectives, agreed a smaller work-in-progress limit, and checked whether the next sprint actually reduced waiting time.
- Owned a Scrum dependency review using Jira blocker history, resolved missing acceptance criteria and completed sprint planning with named decision owners.
- Designed retrospective coaching using delivery evidence, reduced carried-over items from 15 to 6 across three sprints without increasing the team’s capacity assumption.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Scrum Master
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Introduced cross-team dependency reviews for 23 shared milestones. Completed the rollout against the approved acceptance criteria.
- Reviewed a delivered feature against acceptance criteria with design and engineering, documented the unresolved usability issue, and agreed whether it should block release or enter the next iteration.
- Traced a late scope request to the underlying user need, compared it with the agreed release goal, and worked with delivery partners to split required behavior from a follow-up enhancement. Updated acceptance criteria before development continued.
Selected project
Scrum Master — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Facilitated 11 root-cause retrospectives with owned follow-up experiments
- Used a public product workflow to map the user problem, decision points and acceptance criteria; marked assumptions separately from observed behavior and prioritized an experiment before specifying a complete redesign.
- Prepared a decision log showing alternatives, dependencies and the metric that would reverse the recommendation; walked through an exception path and updated the acceptance criteria when ownership was unclear.
- Owned the independent prototype review using task-based acceptance criteria, resolved an ambiguous exception path and completed a test plan with an explicit stopping rule.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Sprint planning · Retrospectives · Impediment tracking · Flow metrics
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
Jun 2024
Publications
- Published a personal product case study using the project decision log, explaining rejected alternatives, testable assumptions and the evidence needed before a production launch.

