Description
Scrum Master - Amsterdam - 3 months +The role is based near Amsterdam and will run for at least 3 months but likely to be long term. Specifically the client is looking for a Scrum Master who remains hands-on but can co-ordinate across two Scrum Teams, introducing agile working practices and improving processes.
You will need to have experience of building Scrum teams from scratch as well as working internationally. Strong coaching skills and political shrewdness is also required in order to balance the teams and the PMO.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Champion three critical pillars of process control: Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
- Actively Facilitate all of the Scrum and Agile rituals, including:
- Release Planning
- User Story Grooming/Refinement
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Establish team working agreements, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint
- Establish sustainable pace - plan team capacity and sprint velocity targets
- Foster a highly collaborative and communicative environment
- Provide ongoing Scrum coaching to the team and to business partners and other stakeholders as required
- Establish and maintain highly effective partnerships with Product Owners and Development Managers
- Work closely with Product Owner to support Release Planning
- Ensure follow through on Retrospective action items
- Facilitate maximum project visibility and transparency for the team and stakeholders
- Monitor Release and Sprint burn down/burn up and facilitate course correction where required
- Become an expert user of Agile life cycle management tools (JIRA, etc.) and help others ramp their knowledge of the tools
They will interview this week/next week and start ASAP. If interested please send me your latest CV and rate expectations. If you're a contractor but not available at the moment, please drop me a message with your renewal date so I can update your record.
Remote work is not available, valid EU permit required for travel, rates are yet to be formalised.
If this sounds interesting to you, please send through your application and I will schedule a call with you.