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Odesus is a premier IT consulting company specializing in project staff augmentation. For over a decade, Odesus has been the go-to company providing top quality IT consultants.Our client in Woodland Hills, CA is actively seeking a contract (possibly contract to hire) Scrum Master for 2-3 teams and working with stakeholders to identify and remove impediments.
Responsibilities:- Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence
- Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management
- Responsible for ensuring the team’s process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
- Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
- Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
- Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
- Must be able to facilitate the development process
- Uphold and defend, as well as coach and mentor, agile values and principles as expressed in the Agile Manifesto
- Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
- Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, demo and retrospectives
- Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
- Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
- Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing
- 5+ years of relevant experience including strong understanding of customer/stakeholder relationships, prioritization, estimation and capacity management
- Must have a thorough understanding of iterative/incremental software development
- Complete understanding of agile processes such as Scrum and Kanban
- Must have been a member of an agile team for at least 2 years
- Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments
- Understand agile metrics and reporting techniques
- Experience to explain and promote agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, BDD and refactoring preferred
- Experience using Jira to track and make visible sprint backlog work flow preferred
- Preferably will have recognized education in agile processes, certifications
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