Duties And Responsibilities
-Provides ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables the team to excel at agile development.
-Facilitates the end-to-end execution of the process (Daily stand-up meetings, Iteration planning, Demos/ showcases and retrospectives).
-Facilitates medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through to release.
-Navigates and identifies shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives.
-Facilitates discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team.
-Actively manages risks and external dependencies drawing in team members as appropriate.
-Creates and maintains the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards,) to create a trusting and safe team environment.
-Continuously seeks to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.
-Removes all impediments to optimise work through the team ensuring that iterations are running smoothly.
-Protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work.
-Supports the Product Owner to track changes in scope and communicates these changes to relevant stakeholders.
-Builds a high-performing team by managing intra-personal conflicts.
-Generates and maintains team metrics and required tracking.
-Uses agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
-Trains, mentors, and supports scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
-Determines and manages tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
-Schedules and facilitates scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
-Monitors progress and performance, and helps teams to make improvements.
-Plans and organizes demos and product/system testing.
-Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes and removes impediments for the scrum team.
-Tracks project processes, deliverables, and financials.
-Prepares and presents status reports to stakeholders
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
-Certified scrum master.
-1+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
-Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
-Leadership and management experience.
-Excellent people and project management skills.
-Strong communication and presentation skills.
-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Skills:
-Agile Scrum Project Management, Business Agility, Business Requirements Gathering, Deliverables Management, Process Improvements, Project Management, Strategic Objectives, Taking Initiative
Education
-Bachelors Degree (B): Information Technology And Computer Science: Information Technology Management