Scrum Master

Fortune 100 financial services organization that is the leading retirement provider for people who work in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields.

• Guide team on Agile / Scrum practices, including:
  • How to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
  • How to get the most of self-organization
  • Self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
  • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Organize the team for scrum ceremonies – Planning, Standups, Retrospective and Review (Demo).
• Work with the team to remove any impediments and escalate where necessary.
• Responsible and Accountable for managing and tracking the performance/velocity of the team, identifying opportunities and driving adjustments to continually enhance the efficiency of their delivery.
• Responsible for managing the capacity and demand of the team (including defect management) to optimize the throughput of the team.
• Responsible for preparing, facilitating and documenting the key meeting routines within the team.
• Encourage team members to be “owners” rather than “assignees”.
• Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches to manage oneself and a team
• Responsible for coaching team members and mediating conflicts to resolution
• 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
• Clearly understand the goals/outcomes of the team and can be a true scrum-master – not a BA, not a PM, not a tech analyst.
• Provides feedback on existing practices and may suggest techniques to improve scrum practices.

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 2 to 3 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc).

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