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- Act as servant-leader to an agile team; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity.
- Empower teams to self-organize.
- Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.
- Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team.
- Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice.
- Ensure team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done.
- Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
- Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.
- Cultivate and environment of trust, good faith, empowerment and creativity.
- Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution.
- Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burn down charts and other visual methods.
- Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
- Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
- Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints.
- Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams delivery commitments.
- Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization.
- Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work per the Product Owners priorities.
- Provide input to and participate in Release Planning.
- Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization.
- Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles
- Bachelors Degree and 5 years experience OR 9 years relevant experience.
- Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban
- Agile Practices - expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding of scaled Agile environments.
- Experience working in an iterative Development environment, utilizing Scrum practices.
- Must have technical background and good knowledge of end to end process of the SDLC.
- 5+ years of working experience as a Scrum Master
- Lean Mindset - ability to develop and champion curiosity, positive attitude, team success, bias for action and inspect and adapt in team.
- Assertiveness - able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments
- Servant-Leader - exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems.
- Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight.
- Collaboration - exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals.
- Social - takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding.
- Communication skills - maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams.
- Flexibility - ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles.
- Organization - ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitation - ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement.
- Tracking - ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, etc.
- High-energy - shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team.
- Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional
- Working experience with SAFe Agile scaling framework
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