Scrum Master

Location: Madison, WI (On-Site 10 days/month)

Length: 12 Month Contract to Hire

Please no agencies. Direct employees currently authorized to work in the United States – no sponsorship available.

* Must be willing to work onsite in Madison, WI 10 days/month

Job Description:

The Scrum Master is focused on empowering Scrum Teams to continually mature and improve the value they deliver. This position is responsible for guiding and coaching one to three Scrum teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values. This role ensures that teams are appropriately leveraging the Scrum framework and Agile mindset to encourage desired results. The Scrum Master acts as a true leader who serves the Scrum team, with a focus on creating an environment of collaboration, responsibility and accountability, helping the product owner to create a robust product backlog, and coaching the Scrum team to improved performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Role Accountability:

• Regularly support one to two teams.
• Major focus on deepening core Scrum Master skills.
• Supports improving organizational Agile, leads improvement of cross team collaboration.

Agile Practices:

• Solid understanding of at least 1 Agile framework and how to coach a team to utilize it using metrics.
• Learning other Agile frameworks and can assist a team to select the correct one based on their work.
• Expanding knowledge of metrics, how to track them, and when to use them across multiple frameworks.

Facilitation:

• Sets a clear agenda and expectations to get the right outcomes from a meeting/ceremony;
• helps teams achieve outcomes on a regular basis.
• Regularly adjusts approach during meetings/ceremonies and uses powerful questions to help teams drive results.
• Can sense when there is conflict and utilizes multiple approaches to coach teams to address it.

Coaching:

• Coaches teams to create cultures where they hold each other accountable.
• Regularly uses a structured approach to individual and team coaching to help them grow.
• Assesses team maturity and utilizes results to help teams improve on a regular basis.

Organizational Agile:

• Knows how their team adds value as well as how they fit into the Value Stream structure to help drive organizational results.
• Utilizes metrics to help teams understand how they are impacting organizational results and find opportunities for improvement.
• Takes on communication, training, and promotion of Agile for their team and key groups their team supports, assists on organizational support of Agile.

Personal Development:

• Focused on how to grow teams understanding of Agile and associated practices, growing skills in how to help those who work with Scrum teams.
• Refining core competencies needed to support teams as a Scrum Master, growing skills to improve Agile at an organizational level.
• Learning how to coach multiple teams effectively.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years experience in a Scrum Master role.
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or similar Scrum Master certification
• preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile methodology and Scrum framework
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity as the organization builds out practices
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate, and mentor in group and individual setting
• Leadership and coaching abilities to guide and mentor Associate Scrum Masters and teams
• Conflict resolution skills to address issues and promote healthy team dynamics
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated use of agile management software used to create and maintain backlogs and manage sprints
• Demonstrated creation of visibility to the work via tools and techniques vs PM software

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