Vacancy expired!
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies
- Remove impediments, shields the team from external distractions and minimizes disruptions so the team can deliver on commitments
- Facilitate formulation of team working agreements, Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), workflow of user stories
- Work closely with the Product owners to maintain a healthy backlog, prioritize backlog, maintain, and communicate minimum viable product (MVP)
- Coach scrum team to balance technical debt against new feature delivery
- Assist teams to write stories that satisfy INVEST criteria and help them size and slice stories when applicable
- Assess scrum maturity of the team, draft a plan to coach the team to achieve higher maturity levels without impacting productivity
- Build trust among team members by helping teams manage conflicts, challenges, eliminating the culture of blame with an emphasis on problem solving
- Create a safe environment for experimentation, innovation, and communication
- Ensure team has clearly identified goals and measurements to deliver value as planned
- Facilitate cross team collaboration and communication
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders and shares status
- Establish and maintain dashboard that enhances visibility of team progress, team capacity, impediments, defect rate, backlog health, sprint velocity, sprint burn down, release metrics
- 5+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience using Agile delivery methodology
- Minimum of 3 year working in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master
- Intimate knowledge of Agile and Scrum with proven experience coaching, mentoring, and teaching junior Agile practitioners
- Experience communicating with leadership (lead through influence)
- Experience participating in and facilitating discussions to discover solutions, capturing, and transforming business and technology requirements into high-quality User Stories and Acceptance criteria
- Must be proficient with Agile Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Jira, Rally, VersionOne, etc.) as well as with Internet research tools, presentation tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), etc.
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, SSM, Scrum Coach Certification Kanban, Lean, Scrum-Kanban, Rally)
- A willingness to travel 80-100% of the time
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now, or at any time in the future
- Agile Certification (SAFe, PMI ACP)
- Product Owner certification (PSPO, CSPO)
- Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), TDD/BDD, CI/CD is a plus
- Exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with demonstrated experience exercising mature judgment in delicate situations
- Should have small team leadership experience with the ability to earn trust while still challenging the team to improve and operate outside its comfort zone in an Agile environment
- Experience implementing best practices and standards related to Agile scrum development & testing practices
- Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that appeals to a wide audience
- Experience managing work planning, monitoring, and reporting
- Experience managing requirements processes including conducting interviews and documenting requirements
- Experience with industry standard System Development Life Cycle methodologies
- An advanced degree in an area of specialization is a plus
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Vacancy expired!