Scrum Master
12 Month contract
Portland, ME
 
 The ideal candidate will have a natural inclination for Servant Leadership and will embrace, foster, and facilitate the Scrum framework across multiple teams and deliverables in an Agile development environment. 
 
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Actively Facilitate all of the Scrum and Agile rituals, including:
  • User Story Grooming/Refinement
  • Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective
• Establish team working agreements, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint
• Establish sustainable pace – plan team capacity and sprint velocity targets
• Foster a highly collaborative and communicative environment
• Provide ongoing Scrum coaching to the team and to business partners and other stakeholders as required
• Establish and maintain highly effective partnerships with Project Manager, Product Owners, and Development Managers
• Work closely with Product Owner to support Sprint Planning
• Ensure follow-through on Retrospective action items
• Monitor Release and Sprint burn down/burn up and facilitate course correction where required
• Become an expert user of Agile lifecycle management tools (e.g., Rally) and help others ramp their knowledge of the tools

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline with an Agile Development project focus.
• CSM Scrum Master certification preferred

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum five years’ experience with a software development team
• Two years’ experience working in a Scrum team environment
• Significant facilitation experience either in senior contributor, scrum master or project management role
• Experience with Agile Lifecycle Management

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Demonstrated expertise in the Scrum Framework and Agile Methodology, including strong working knowledge of ScrumValues, Roles, Rituals, and Artifacts, as well as Agile Principles and Values
• Firm understanding of the value of team commitments to delivery and related metrics
• Firm understanding of the value of incremental delivery
• Firm understanding of user story construction, user story estimation, sprint health indicators (burn-down/burn-up), velocity, continuous improvement
• Strong ability to communicate clearly and articulate project conditions (verbal & written)
• Ability to coach and influence multi-disciplined and cross-functional teams
• Ability to maintain technical proficiency in current Agile Lifecycle Management software