Scrum Master

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Active, handson Scrum Master across multiple software product development teams
Coaching and mentoring teams and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices to deliver value, maintain quality and continuously improve with predictable outcomes
Promoting team selforganization and leading best practices for distributed development teams comprised of local and remote employees and offshore partners
Guiding the team on how to develop and extend Agile practices in a full lifecycle product development environment with several active teams, across multiple products and many active enterprise class customers
Assessing the maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable for the team and organization
Removing impediments, guiding teams to remove impediments and working with leaders and stakeholders to remove impediments
Building a trusting and safe environment in which problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or judgment, with an emphasis on learning, problem solving and continuous improvement
Facilitating effective, open collaboration through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by the team and across stakeholders
Creating, maintaining, reporting and instilling organizationwide use of Agile metrics as indicators of success and measures for improvement and course correction
Assisting with internal and external communication by improving transparency and radiating information
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlogs