Scrum Manager

Sprint Management:  

• 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