Scrum Master- Cerritos, CA

Scrum Master

Location: Cerritos CA

Duration: Contract

Rate: DOE

Requirements:

Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

Have a minimum of 5 years experiences working in an Agile / Scrum environment.

Demonstrate a solid understanding of the agile methodology and processes.

Demonstrate a solid understanding of Agile Estimation and be able to guide a team through a relative story pointing exercise.

Guiding the team on 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.

Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.

Building a trusting and safe environment where issues be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Have knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing.

Possess the ability to intelligently explain agreed to processes, methodologies and techniques being utilized by the organization to a variety of audiences (team members, PO, management, stakeholders) at the appropriate level.

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.)

Need to have Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP (Extreme Programming), Kanban, FDD (Feature-Driven Development) etc.