Scrum Master

Responsibilities/Requirements:

• Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices.
• Facilitate and schedule meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use.
• This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve.
• Drive quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitates the sprint review, demo, and retrospective.
• Captures, distributes, and monitors retrospective feedback.
• Teaches problem solving and helps the team become better problem solvers for themselves.
• Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels.
• Provides regular and open communication across the program to all stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
• Eliminates impediments by actively addressing issues so the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the sprint.
• Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
• Plans and coordinates testing environment deployments and application/system integration testing.
• Ensures the proper documentation is complete in readiness for production releases.
• Assists as needed in testing, training, and implementation of the supported application.
• Guides team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals.
• Helps the team improve on their journey towards continuous delivery, which includes technical practices including continuous integration, continuous deployment and designing the solution for release.

Required Skills : Experience and use of Agile tools. Experience in , product/probusiness analysisject management, or product development. Demonstrated coaching experience (effective at getting the best out of people, drive people to their best performance, empowerment, and motivation). Excellent communication, collaboration, leadership and conflict resolution skills. Experience using tools that measure and report on team performance, backlog health and continuous improvement. CSM (Certified Scrum Master) SA (SAFe Agilist) or SSM (SAFe Scrum Master) Strong attention to detail