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JOB DESCRIPTION
· Operates as a team-based servant leader in
service to the team’s needs.
· Ensures the team is practicing Agile
principles.
· Partners with, coaches and supports business
lead/Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized
and appropriately sized.
· Facilitates all the Scrum ceremonies (backlog
grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos).
· Establishes, tracks, and communicates agile
metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress/burn down chart) to team, management,
and any impacted stakeholders.
· Facilitates alignment and assists business
lead/Product Owner and Delivery Team with making appropriate commitments.
· Identifies, removes and/or escalates risks,
roadblocks and cross team dependencies that are un-resolvable by the team and
interfere with the team’s ability to deliver commitments.
· Accountable for promoting continuous
improvement by coaching the team to use metrics to identify and measure
progress.
· Participates with other Scrum Masters to
increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and
cross-scrum collaboration on delivery execution.
· Continuously learns new approaches to
facilitation, agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics.Helps the team to focus on delivery of high-quality stories on a
predictable, sustainable cadence.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS.
· Minimum
5 years relevant work experience supporting or leading a team. Experience
working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.
· Familiarity
or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP
Programming etc. Relevant certification in the field preferred (examples below).
· Professional
Scrum Master (PSM I).
· Certified
Scrum Master (CSM).
· Agile
Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).
· Agile
Scrum Master (ASM).
· Scrum
Master Certified (SCM). SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification