Scrum Master

The Scrum Master is a servant leader responsible for coaching the Scrum teams to make progress, learn, and function at the highest level, which includes removing impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, and working with product owners to ensure product backlog is well-groomed and ready for the next sprint, and acting as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences. This requires a good understanding of the Scrum framework and the ability to train others on it.

Responsibilities:

• Show team planned velocity vs. historical velocity, to make sure targeted work can be accepted
• Help Product Owner planning and road mapping discussions
• Foster conversations/communications
• Enforce team ground rules and cultural norms
• Review action items and hold team accountable for follow-through
• Facilitate Sprint Reviews;
  Work with Product Owner and team to determine agenda for the review
• Analyze and interpret sprint metrics
• Give status reports; communicate accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholders
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives;
  Capture info and summarize as sprint planning input
• Work with Product Owner to administer, prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size backlog
• Facilitate tasking process or charge the team with what needs to be accomplished so that team can self-organize and accomplish sprint goals
• Keep whole team(s) moving forward;
  Foster team’s self-organization and remove distractions, impediments, and roadblocks
• Facilitate regular agile events to ensure progress
• Ensure the team is fully functional and productive
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions and remove barriers
• Shield team from external interferences
• Encourage team to be more self-organizing and self-managing
• Coach the team(s);
  Help Product Owner understand how to create and maintain proper product backlog
• Work with team to determine definition of done
• Coach the team on how to execute the Scrum processes
• Find techniques for effective product backlog management
• With the Product Owner, clearly communicate product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development team
• Monitor team for:
• Agile anti-patterns
• People working in isolation for more than a day
• Anyone making little visible progress
• Wait times or other wasteful processes
• Poor software engineering practices
• Infrequent builds
• Opportunities to amplify cross-training and “T” shaping
• Slippages in quality or velocity trends
• Facilitate whole teams’ understanding of Scrum
• Ensure application of agile principles
• Ensure understanding and practicing agility
• Foster creativity and empowerment
• Ensure the process is followed
• Facilitate retrospectives and promote continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Must be able to communicate well with teams and demonstrate value-add principles
• Experience as a Scrum Master for a software team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory preferred
• Must have the requisite agile knowledge of software development experience to coach and guide Development Team members on how to improve their skills
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and make the tough calls
• Ability to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $60.00 to $66.67 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.