Description
Scrum Mater
Location: Monroeville, PA
Overview:
- Serve the role of Scrum Master as defined in the Scrum Guide
- Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values
- Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization, and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
Skillsets:
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution with an emphasis on problem solving
- Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
- Understand sufficient technical architecture to facilitate discussion, communicate decisions and raise impediments
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
- Work as part of a team within the department and across departments to help achieve group, department and overall project goals.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent follow-through on actions and deliverables
Responsibilities:
- Remove impediments for the team with tenacity and urgency
- Facilitate Scrum events and ensure necessary preparation work is completed in advance to create efficient, engaging, and productive events
- Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and maintaining the product backlog
- Resolve team conflicts and coach the team in positive behaviors
- Monitor team activity and progress against sprint goals
- Manage artifacts in development tool
- Lead retrospectives, capture minutes/actions and circulate
- Capture sprint metrics for monitoring team performance
- Attend project update meetings, milestone review meetings, and process improvement meetings
- Coordinate with other Scrum teams and other cross-functional groups
- Provide solutions using techniques that encourage team ownership and innovation
Required Skills/Experience:
- Certified Scrum Master
- Experience as a Scrum Master for at least 1 year for a software development team that followed Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- 3-5 years of professional experience working in a software development organization
- BS in IT-related field
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Experience as a Scrum Master for at least 2 years for a software development team that was following Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- More than 5 years of professional experience working in a software development organization, serving for some portion as software developer for some portion of this time
- BS in IT-related field
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches/techniques: XP, Kanban, SAFe, TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Agile Games
- Applicable knowledge of C# .NET and Java technologies
- Previous experience in leadership roles