Scrum Master

Description

Responsibilities The Senior Scrum Master has primary responsibility of ensuring the effective application of Agile practices and Scrum framework to complex project execution and facilitating the learning and growth of one or more (typically multiple) Agile teams in developing a leanAgile mindset, improving practices, and guiding them to more predictable delivery.
The Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies, planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams as well as modeling and promoting Agile values and principles.
A servant leader who enables teams to selforganize, selfmanage, and deliver via effective LeanAgile practices.
Facilitates all sprint ceremonies within the Scrum Framework Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, MidSprint Review, and Retrospectives.
Ensure team understands the purpose and principles to all Scrum ceremonies, ensuring team is value focused throughout each iteration.
Acts as a change agent and leads continuous improvement of the team and optimize delivery.
Develops and implements continuous improvement plans.
Challenges the norm and develops and executes improvement plans in the areas of quality, predictability, and flow.
Leads, guides, influences, and acts as a role model, exemplifying Scrum, XP, and Kanban principles.
Works to embed these principles across the organization.
Partners with the delivery manager, technical lead, or other stakeholders to understand and advocate for achieving technical best practices.
Collaborates with Global Technology project managers and product owners on featurebased financials (estimates and spend detail).
Works with the product owners on a continual basis to refine and prioritize backlog.
Leads crossteam dependency identification, tracking, and resolution and facilitates initiativelevel release planning when required.
If a part of an Agile Release Train (ART), participates and significantly contributes to ceremonies, such as Agile Release Train Synch, Scrum Master sync, and PI planning.
Utilize CA Agile Central (or other IHG approved delivery tool) and adheres to established standards and guidelines.
Facilitates multiteam events such as Release Planning or retrospectives with 2+ teams.
Typically mentors 2+ or more Scrum Masters or Associate Scrum Masters.
Provides advice and guidance to Global Technology and Product Management leadership on Agile best practices