Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behaviors – coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile principles, values, and practices.
• Facilitate and support scaled Agile Scrum meetings such as daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Sessions, Team Sync, and Innovation & Planning events.
• Regularly utilize data and team metrics to demonstrate team capacity, predictability, and maturity.
• Track team velocity towards goals and provide documentation such as burn-down charts for weekly and monthly status reports.
• Act as a liaison between the team and others, minimizing interruptions to the sprint, keeping the team focused on delivering a quality product
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Software Development teams to prioritize product backlog items by providing technical insight into the work being requested and identify upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Promote regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress.
• Ensure progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments – guide assigned Agile teams to deliver the required product increments and outcomes.
• Participate with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies and procedures related to Scaled Agile Framework  and be an advocate in adopting Agile best practices and processes.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to support contribution to the relentless improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

Key Skills:

• Learning to build Scrum knowledge. 
• Execution of Scrum. 
• Leadership. 
• Collaboration. 
• Organization.
• Project management tools expertise. 
• Agile and software development knowledge. 
• Listening.