Scrum Master

Description

Job Description Act as servantleader to an agile team; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity.
Empower teams to selforganize.
Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.
Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team.
Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice.
Ensure team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done.
Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.
Cultivate and environment of trust, good faith, empowerment and creativity.
Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution.
Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods.
Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints.
Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business.
Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams' delivery commitments.
Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization.
Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'readyforwork' per the Product Owners priorities.
Provide input to and participate in Release Planning.
Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization.
Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
Agile Practices expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding of scaled Agile environments.
Software Development basic understanding of the fundamentals of software development and the software development lifecycle.
College education in computer science or 3 years working in a software development environment.
Minimum 3 years' experience supporting a team as a Scrum Master.
Experience working in an iterative Development environment, utilizing Scrum practices.
Must have technical background and good knowledge of end to end process of the SDLC.
Experience with XP development practices
Experience with Scrum, Lean and/or XP inspired practices required
Experience with continuous delivery preferred.
Experience with SAFE
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Professional Designations
One or more of the following relevant Agile certifications is required
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO