Experience working closely with cross-functional development teams, with at least 5 years of IT experience in Scrum teams.
Strong knowledge of agile development practices in a leadership role.
Effective facilitation skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops and meetings with all staff levels.
Solid technical understanding of Scrum and other delivery methodologies, platforms, tools, and languages.
Requirements:
Facilitate Scrum events, meetings, and workshops; coach the team to self-organization and continuous improvement.
Ensure goals, scope, and product domain are understood by the Scrum team; assist with backlog management and help the team understand backlog items; support the Product Owner in ordering the backlog to maximize value.
Protect the team from external interruptions and remove impediments; coach the organization in applying Scrum where it is not yet fully adopted.
Lead Scrum adoption across the organization, plan implementations, and work with other Scrum Masters to improve Scrum effectiveness while reinforcing Agile principles.
Job description
Responsibilities
Coach: Facilitate meetings, conversations, and improvements.
Ensure that the goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the scrum team as well as possible;
Find techniques for effective product backlog management;
Help the scrum team understand product backlog items;
Ensure the product owner knows how to arrange the product backlog to maximize value;
Facilitate scrum events as requested or needed.
Protector: Limit interference so the team can remain focused.
Remove impediments to the team’s progress;
Coach the team in organizational environments in which scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
Leader: Lead without authority and put the team first.
Coach the developers in self-organization and cross-functionality;
Leading and coaching the organization in its scrum adoption;
Advocate: Reinforce agile principles throughout the organization.
Understand and practice agility;
Plan scrum implementations within the organization;
Help employees and stakeholders understand and enact scrum;
Work with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
Skills/Experience
Experience of working closely with cross-functional development teams, at least 5 years working IT experience and in Scrum Teams
Demonstrate good knowledge of agile development capabilities, in a leadership role.
Effective facilitation skills, ability to facilitate workshops/meetings with all staff levels.
Good technical understanding of scrum and other delivery methodologies and standard development methodologies, platforms, tools, and languages.
Be a natural communicator with an ability to engage, influence and build relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and customers
