Scrum Master

Noord-Holland  ‐ Onsite
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For multiple clients we are looking for scrum masters.

In this role you will be the process owner, you will roll out and manage the agile processes, ensures that processes are followed and work with the Business Analyst or Product Owner. You will make sure that the team lives by the values and practices of Scrum (Agile Methodologies), takes a holistic approach to development strategy, and that processes are clear and staff are empowered.

You will complete the planning for the development of the sprints, run the daily stand ups, run the show and tell meetings and ensure all work relating to the sprints is delivered successfully.

Due to the fast paced and constantly changing nature of the role, you will need to be flexible, work well under pressure and able to provide creative solutions to solve problems. You will need to be in co location or close on line collaboration of all team members and have daily face to face communication (Daily Stand ups) to maximise the team's ability to deliver quickly and manage emerging requirements.

Key accountabilities of the role:

To ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.

To be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.

To facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches.

To lead a team to self-organization.

To bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust.

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

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.

Job demands Scrum master KO:

  • Proven experience of working as a Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Be a problem solver with highly developed analytical skills.
  • You will need Knowledge of a variety of analysis methods and modelling approaches/tools.
  • You will need good knowledge of IT and the requirements made of IT by the Business.
  • Be able to communicate clearly with the business, IT and external providers at all levels with a high degree of clarity and professionalism.
  • Be comfortable and flexible with ambiguity that comes from working in a change environment.
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  • Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedure.
  • Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development.

Technical/professional qualifications:

  • First level Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM I).
  • Fully conversant with all Microsoft Office Applications.

Desirable Skills and Experiences:

Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.

Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques to fully realise the potential of Agile/Scrum frameworks (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs,etc).

Remaining Information:

Location: Netherlands

Start: ASAP

Duration: 4 months

Recruiter: Stephan van der Deijl

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Who are we?

ItaQ Interim Professional BV is a recruitment & consultancy agency and specialized to interim positions in the ICT sector.

The interim professionals from ItaQ have a bachelor degree and working experience of at least 5 years.

We deliver Project-/programmanager, Analyst/architects and experts on the area of ERP/CRM/Data warehousing/Applications, Internet & E-business, Outsourcing, Information security & Auditing and (Tele) Communication.

Start date
n.a
Duration
4 months
From
Itaq B.V.
Published at
08.01.2015
Project ID:
830771
Contract type
Freelance
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