Scrum Master

Job Overview

The Scrum Master II is responsible for working with Product Owners to ensure the Backlog is prioritized, creating successful teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality; managing the Backlog to maximize ROI and deliver the highest value outcomes; driving for continuous improvement. The Scrum Master II may also serve as a Program Manager and support business and IT leaders to adapt processes, procedures, culture, and behavior needed for successful agile delivery and the team by enacting and helping everyone understand Scrum empirical theory and pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaption.

This role tracks team metrics such as Velocity, Burndown charts, Cycle time, etc. to coach the team for continuous improvement and also tracks and reports progress and value delivery to Business and IT leadership. This position is responsible for effectively coaching one or more teams where low-level coaching is required and supporting and, or overseeing one or more initiatives for a specific line of business, vertical to ensure alignment with the business's overall roadmap as well as serve on individual initiatives that need to be managed by a Program Manager.

• Collaborates with the Product Owner to review work requested by the business stakeholders, as well as technical work needed to set priorities and to ensure there are 2-3 sprints of groomed (ready) work
• Facilitates Scrum or Kanban events (Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement, Workflow, Flow Review, Replenishment), and coaches team(s) to become self-organizing and self-managing, specifically:
  • Sprint: a time box of 1-4 weeks during which a useable and potentially releasable increment of work is completed
  • Sprint Planning: an event where the team determines what they can confidently complete in the upcoming Sprint, and self-organizes to plan the tasks needed to do so
  • Daily Standup: 15-minute time-boxed event held every day of the Sprint for the Agile team to plan work for the next 24 hours. This optimizes team collaboration and performance
  • Sprint Review: held at the end of the Sprint for the agile team to share with stakeholders what was done in the Sprint, elicit their feedback, and agree on the next Sprint's work to optimize value to the business
  • Sprint Retrospective - held at the end of the Sprint for continuous improvement of the team where the team inspects itself and creates a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint
  • Backlog Refinement: breaking down high-level ideas into independent, estimable, and testable increments of useable and potentially releasable units of work that can be completed within a Sprint
• Facilitates and coaches team discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution focusing on scrum values (focus, openness, respect, courage, and commitment)
• Shields team from work requests and distractions outside of the team's sprint work and removes impediments the team cannot resolve themselves while ensuring the team has everything they need to be successful
• Ensures goals, scope, and Product Backlog are fully understood by the team
• Supports the team by enacting and educating everyone on the Scrum theory of empiricism and pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaption
• Tracks team metrics such as Velocity, Burndown charts, Cycle time, etc. to coach team for continuous improvement, as well as tracks and reports progress and value delivery to Business and IT leadership

• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring abilities as a servant leader
• Strong issue resolution and facilitation skills
• Ability to influence various levels throughout the organization
• Knowledge of software development processes and procedures, agile metrics
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and balance competing priorities

• High school diploma or GED
• Knowledge acquired through 5 to up to 7 years of work experience

• Associate's degree…