Act as lead team spokesperson on delivery related items with responsibility for communicating the “story of the sprint”, including delivery stats, overall trends, etc.
Maintain accurate and projected capacity plan at all times.
Ensure appropriate backlog refinement activities are taking place – to maintain at least 1 sprints worth of groomed stories at all times.
Ensure Epics/Features are reflected accurately for a specific piece of work so that status tracking can be done accurately.
Facilitate specific agile ceremonies:
Team Demo’s
Retro’s
Daily Standups
Dependency Huddle
Sprint Planning Meetings
Etc.
Capture, track and remove team blockers, escalating as needed.
Capture, track and manage funnel and/or initiative specific RAID (risk, agreement, issue, decision) items. Escalate as needed. Note: initiatives that have Project/Program Managers assigned may track their RAID items differently.
Capture, track and coordinate dependencies across all funnel related work items (aside from those being managed by a specific Project/Program Manager) in advance of sprints actual start.
Ensure backlog health is maintained and ticket refinement ceremonies are consistent and effective (working with the aligned Business Analyst).
Update directly or ensure maintenance by others of Jira and Confluence data at all times, ensuring accuracy of data leveraged within the Scrum master dashboard.
Leverage the Scrum master dashboard metrics for decision making activities, presenting the information to others as required. Continue to provide feedback and ideas on improving the dashboard and driving a fact-based approach to decision making.
Maintain initiative specific timelines and report initiative level status updates as appropriate (aside from those items being managed by a specific Project/Program Manager).
Ensure communication occurs with all key stakeholders when sprints are defined (i.e. sprint plans are set).
With partner Scrum Masters, maintain master sprint calendar.
Manage and maintain the Dependency Huddle and associated before, during and after the meetings as needed.
Ensure all funnel specific quarterly planning activities are handled within a timely manner and in a way that ensures the teams are able to develop, represent and finalize their plans during the QPR cycle