Scrum Master

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
• Typically requires 5 years of IT work experience and at least 1 year of scrum execution in an IT or software development setting
• Requires knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks
• Requires understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams
• Requires PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification
  
   

Responsibilities

 

• Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Guards the agile team from external requests and disruptions
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition
• Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps
• Removes impediments for the agile team
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution
• Develops metric reports on project status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time
• Complexity
• Supports one or more agile teams
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects