Scrum Master

Fortune 100 financial services organization that is the leading retirement provider for people who work in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields.

Essential Duties:

• Guide team on Agile / Scrum practices, including:

O How to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

O How to get the most of self-organization

O Self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

O Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Organize the team for scrum ceremonies – Planning, Standups, Retrospective and Review (Demo).

• Work with the team to remove any impediments and escalate where necessary.

• Responsible and Accountable for managing and tracking the performance/velocity of the team, identifying opportunities and driving adjustments to continually enhance the efficiency of their delivery.

• Responsible for managing the capacity and demand of the team (including defect management) to optimize the throughput of the team.

• Responsible for preparing, facilitating and documenting the key meeting routines within the team.

• Encourage team members to be “owners” rather than “assignees”.

• Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches to manage oneself and a team

• Responsible for coaching team members and mediating conflicts to resolution

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

• Clearly understand the goals/outcomes of the team and can be a true scrum-master – not a BA, not a PM, not a tech analyst.

• Provides feedback on existing practices and may suggest techniques to improve scrum practices.

Required Skills/Experience:

• First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 2 to 3 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Alexander Hubert MAgsalin

Technical Recruiter | TrueBridge Resources, A North Highland Company

303-547-1959