Scrum Master

Title: Scrum Master
Location: Remote, LA
Duration: 3+ Years

Job Description:

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

• Facilitation of Scrum Master
  • Daily Scrum Meetings
  • Sprint Planning Meetings
  • Sprint Review Meetings
  • Sprint Retrospective Meetings

● Maintain Team Dynamics
o Coaching team members (e.g., with one-on-one coaching)
o Mediating through impediments & conflicts
o Identifying outstanding project and product decisions impacting team delivery
o Fostering the assigned team's self-organization
o Supporting Team, Project and Organization goals with project leaders and product owner(s)
o Giving feedback to the team
o Encouraging the use of Agile Practices within the development teams
o Recognizing team productivity issues & fostering continuous improvement methods to resolve the issues.

● Help in product related activities
o Helping teams and vendors with the release planning
o Being familiar with the team (i.e., the product)

● Supporting the big picture
o Bringing people together who should talk to each other
o Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly
o Helping the team report to management
o Helping to further the Agile community within the organization
o Being a contact person for everyone on the team and their stakeholders regarding Agile
o Giving learning opportunities to people in the organization (e.g., talks or workshops) and letting them learn important Agile concepts (e.g., technical debt)
o Facilitating change

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• Five (5) years minimum experience working in the Scrum Master role
• Familiarity with JIRA
• Agile software development (Scrum Methodology)

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:

• Experience preparing presentations for project stakeholders
• Experience facilitating team building activities