Scrum Master takes on various roles based on the maturity level of the Agile team. Clearly, the success of any Agile team is based on the effective partnership of the Scrum Master and the team, collaborating, and embracing Agile principles. As a Scrum Master, you naturally have a servant leader and coach mindset. You will identify needs, remove impediments, and contribute as necessary to ensure the performance and success of the team. This position requires a leader accountable for maximizing the business value produced by the team, including throughput and delivery.
Responsibilities:Lead multiple global cross-functional teams on various projects by using Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe).Sprint Events: Effectively manage and facilitate sprint ceremonies to support development and product releases.Product Shaping/Scope Management: Support the product owner and provide education where needed especially in Product Backlog health, Dependency Management to better manage Releases.Stakeholder Management: Partner, collaborate, and manage team stakeholders, vendors, and dependent teams.PI and Sprint Planning: Help the teams to accomplish Sprint goals & PI OKRs by following ceremonies and planning/estimation of epics in Agile tools. Lead planning increment sessions to establish scope and build release plans.Coaching Teams: Coach squads in self-organization. Help the squads achieve higher levels of Agile maturity.Impediment Management: Tactically identify dependencies and blockers, track and help remove them accordingly.Retrospective: Ability to identify pain points for Agile teams and bring in fresh practical ideas.Progress tracking and Metrics: Setup and review metrics to drive progress. Note anti-agile patterns through metrics and coach/steer teams accordingly. Escalate if progress is hindered.
