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ID #17125690
State California
City Woodlandhills
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source Odesus
Showed 2021-07-22
Date 2021-06-28
Deadline 2021-08-27
Category Et cetera
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Scrum Master

California, Woodlandhills, 91367 Woodlandhills USA

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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

Requirements:
  • 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
For more information and immediate consideration, please submit your resume as a Word document today!

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