Description:
Responsibilities:
• Plan and advise scrum implementations that support organizational initiatives that meet customer needs
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices that enhance quality, lowers technical debt, and increases product value
• Support the scrum team by removing impediments, negotiating priorities, and shielding them from interference
• Foster an environment of collaboration, transparency, inspection, adaptation, and continuous improvement
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration and remove barriers between stakeholders and team
• Ensure the goals, scope and product domain are understood by everyone on the team
• Be a driver of Agile transformation
• Facilitate the scrum ceremonies
Education and Experience:
- Excellent communication skills
• Strong training, mentoring and coaching skills
• Strong facilitation skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated experience working with a full-cycle Agile team (Scrum, Kanban)
• Good knowledge of Lean Software Development, Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming
• A desire to learn through experimentation
• Scrum of Scrum and the ability to facilitate cross-team activities.
Preferred Skills:
• Skills in Agile practices for Product Management
• Good business acumen skills to engage business leaders
• Experience in applying a wide variety of well-known patterns and techniques, e.g. TDD, SOLID, CI/CD, INVEST, User Stories, Agile estimation
Qualifications
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
• Coaching credential (ICF) – optional.