Description
Job Description Scrum Master
Belgium
Must speak English and Dutch
What is his/her role?
- Helps the team and the organization to apply agile methodologies in order to provide added value to the customer
- Guides the team to become self-organizing and work in a multidisciplinary way
- Guides the team to become self-steering regarding the use of methods and techniques for the team to achieve tangible results
- Determines the maturity of the team and coaches the team to increase the this agile maturity at a suitable pace for the team and the organization
- Implements a culture of continuous learning & improvement in the team
- Ensures a safe environment of trust where problems can be addressed without finger pointing and negative judgment
- Facilitate the rituals and discipline the team in doing so: backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-up, sprint review, sprint retrospective
- Helps the team in impediment identification & removing
- Facilitate discussion, decision-making and solving of conflicts
- Facilitate in achieving the foreseen results without assigning tasks
- Assist with inside and outside communication of the team with the purpose to maximize transparent and valuable information
- Support the product owner with the maintenance of the product backlog
- Support the team from the practices of servant leadership and lead by example
- Ensure transparency towards stakeholders (product owner, PMO, Management Team)
Experience
- University degree, or equivalent by experience,
- At least 5 years of experience in IT
- At least 2 year experience of working as a scrum master
- Profound knowledge of Scrum
- Good knowledge of other agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, XP
- Experience of applying agile methodologies in a telecom environment is a plus
- Fluent communication in Dutch and English
Skills
- An excellent communicator and facilitator
- Adapts his/her methods, techniques, approach & leadership style to the situation
- Listening & providing valuable feedback
- Ability to coach and teach
- Ability to work in a fast changing environment
- Authenticity in telling and living the agile values
- Constantly striving for improvement
- Enjoys to coach people to grow and improve