Skills equiv. to 6-10 years in comparable position.
Conduct all Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective and client demos.
Interface with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.
Remove obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.
Ensure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a daily basis.
Must have experience managing software development projects, preferable managing or performing software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach.
Ability to apply scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.
Additional Job Details:
Help Product Owner planning and road mapping discussions
Facilitate Sprint Reviews; Work with Product Owner and team to determine agenda for the review
Analyze and interpret sprint metrics
Give status reports; communicate accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholders
Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives; Capture info and summarize as sprint planning input
Work with Product Owner to administer, prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size backlog
Facilitate tasking process or charge the team with what needs to be accomplished so that team can self-organize and accomplish sprint goals Keeps whole team(s) moving forward; Fosters team's self-organization and remove distractions, impediments, and roadblocks are removed. Facilitate regular agile events to ensure progress.
Encourage team to be more self-organizing and self-managing Coach the team(s); Help Product Owner understand how to create and maintain proper product backlog. Work with team to determine definition of done. Coach the team on how to execute the Scrum processes.
Find techniques for effective product backlog management
With the Product Owner, clearly communicates product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development team
Monitors team for: Agile anti-patterns People working in isolation for more than a day Anyone making little visible progress Wait times or other wasteful processes Poor software engineering practices Infrequent builds Opportunities to amplify cross-training and "T" shaping Slippages in quality or velocity trends Facilitate whole teams’ understanding of Scrum
Ensures application of agile principles
Ensures understanding and practicing agility
Experience as a Scrum Master for a software team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory preferred
Must have the requisite agile knowledge of software development experience to coach and guide Development Team members on how to improve their skills.
Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and make the tough calls
Ability to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
