SCRUM Master

SCRUM Master

Location: Remote

Duration: 5 months (possible extension)

Duties:

• Training the team on using Agile/Scrum practices.
• Implement Scrum based practices within multiple IT projects and help standardize Scrum practice.
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team, organizing and coaching the team to higher level of maturity Setting up processes, dashboards, and stories in Jira.
• Teach teams on daily standups, building appropriate engineering metrics like burn down charts, velocity metrics, resource capacity metrics, etc. and standardize them across IT.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Assisting with internal communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.

Skills:

• Candidate should be a Certified Scrum Trainer or a Certified Enterprise Coach.
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role as a practitioner for more than 3 years > 1 year of experience in training companies successfully on the migration to Scrum/Agile based practices.
• Knowledge of numerous and well documented patterns, techniques, and best practices for e.g.
• Burndown techniques, retrospective formats, bug tracking, story writing, epic writing, velocity metrics, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of various agile approaches like XP, Kanban, FDD, etc.
• Excellent communication, mentoring and influencing skills.