Scrum Master

Skill Sets:

• Key Responsibilities:
• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team (Product Development Team) on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality product standards.
• Gets a team to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
  
• Proven experience in removing impediments/blockers for the Scrum Team.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum values, principles, practice, and guidelines.
• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, and domain knowledge, and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
• Works with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision-making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organization.
  
• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all Scrum events/ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective & Backlog Refinement.
• Demonstrates Leadership by way of coaching, consulting, mentoring, and supporting Agile teams assigned to Product Dev, Business & Ops Team.
• Manages and facilitates Scrum of Scrum events/ceremonies with multiple Scrum teams/feature teams.

Known Methodologies

Agile-Scrum
Agile-Kanban
Agile-Scrumban
CI-CD
Large Scale Agile - LeSS
Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe
Product Management

Key Qualifications:

• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles across multiple product squads.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Implementation knowledge of Agile frameworks or methodologies - i.e., Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP, etc., on an enterprise level, as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
• Planning and problem-solving with product development, operations, and business teams.
• Product Organization/Startup experience is desirable.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) / Professional Scrum Master (PSM) / SAFe Scrum Master Certification is mandatory.