Scrum Master

Scrum MasterRequired Skills & Experience• 5-7 years of working experience as a Scrum Master • Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques: Forecasting techniques and flow metrics, online whiteboarding, liberating structures, different methods for authoring product backlog items, ordering techniques for a backlog, pair/mob programming, various interesting retrospective techniques, stances of a servant leader, Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration • Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency • Kanban, Scrum with Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean applied to Knowledge Work • Experience and knowledge working with Lean-Kanban product technology and services teams • Demonstrated proficiency in facilitating team collaboration and communication • Experience and comfortability in coaching and collaborating with stakeholders in a client-facing role. • Scrum Guide Expertise. • Demonstrated experience in training and coaching software development teamsNice to Have Skills & Experience• Scrum Master certification from recognized agency; PSM II and more from Scrum.org preferred • Kanban or equivalent certification – Kanban Management Professional (KMP) or higher (bonus)Key Responsibilities: • Establishing scrum per the Scrum Guide by helping everyone understand scrum theory and practice • Ensure the effectiveness of delivery of the scrum team by enabling the team to improve their practices continually by teaching the team to be cross-functional and self-managing. • Coach the team to hold productive, positive events within their timeboxes, cause the removal of impediments, and helping the team focus on creating a usable, valuable increment that meets the team Definition of Done • Teach the team to improve the transparency of their process and work product • Facilitate scrum events as needed, stakeholder collaboration, and backlog refinement as requested by the Product Owner. • Help the Product Owner discover new ways to refine and manage the backlog and teach them how to use empirical product planning. • Help the organization to adopt empirical planning methods and work with outside groups to help them work successfully with the Scrum Team • Teach stakeholders to participate in successful Sprint Review events such that everyone can see what happened during the sprint and help to improve things.