Scrum Master

Description:   The Scrum Master leads and influences the Team according to their needs and to follow Scrum. The ScrumMaster has experience with the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto and coaches others on the subtleties.

They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of   priorities and product delivery, planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise.

They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a partner in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.

Provides consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap, release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
Facilitate Scrum master meetings for assigned product area with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos. Facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, product teams, and/or operational teams.  Consult with the Product Owner to validate priorities
Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible.  Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes.
Help the team monitor progress daily.  Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally.  Maintain relevant metrics to show progress.
Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives

 Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs.
Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence. Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Product Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
 Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))