Scrum Master II

12 - 15 Years 2 Openings Hyderabad

Role description

Role Proficiency:

Partner with two to three business and technology teams to plan and execute their tactical and strategic work; delivering the vision of the business. Coach mentor and train multiple teams to deliver quality products and services. Work experience with scale.

Outcomes:

• Collaborate with Product Owners and multiple product teams with varying levels of Agile maturity to define product goals backlogs and roadmaps

• Team coordination: Ensure teams operate with agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice

• Dependency coordination: Work with teams to identify and manage interactive dependencies within a complex systems environment

• Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams to maintain their team data and collateral; keeping relevant over time to changing needs of the business

• Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices

• Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders; using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.

• Act as a role model for Scrum Masters and Agile champion. Contribute to expanding the understanding and practice of Agile principles and values throughout the entire organization

• Work with the teams to identify and mitigate impediments and risks to the program

• Lead the teams through Agile training and enablement sessions.

• Experience working at scale as a Scrum Master for squads that operate following scaling operating models (programs tribes portfolios release trains etc..)

Measures of Outcomes:

• Percent of increase in Agile maturity as defined by the maturity tools i.e. adoption of Agile practices and participation within the team

• Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program

• Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability

Outputs Expected:

Change Agent:

• Facilitate team events to drive Agile practices (e.g. daily stand up
  sprint planning
  sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives).

• Conduct regular check-ins with all team members to provide performance feedback and offer coaching and mentoring

• Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e.g. Velocity
  Burndown
  CFD’s
  cycle time
  etc)

• Coach the team
  the product owner and business stakeholders on Agile practices and processes (e.g. methodology
  acceptance criteria
  user stories
  estimation
  etc.)

• Provide training to the team on Agile concepts
  various practices and frameworks
  as required

• Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e.g. Mural
  Miro
  MS Teams
  Zoom
  etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency

• Work closely with all teams in prioritization and planning new improvements initiatives.

• Apply quantitative management skills (e.g. using metrics to perform root-cause analysis
  while implementing action items for continuous improvement)

• Coach
  mentor and train junior Scrum Masters and new Product Owners.

• Schedule and deliver Agile related training to the organization.

Skill Examples:

• Understand the business requirements and interact with SMEs at various stages of development

• Understand the customers technology landscape and requirements

• Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan

• Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects

• Promote continuous knowledge management

• The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials

• Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress

• Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project

• The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances

• A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies

• The ability to work with challenging clients and stakeholders

• Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.

Knowledge Examples:

• Experience applying a variety of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Retrospective formats handling bugs Backlog Prioritization collaboration team building techniques etc.)
  • Passion for Agile software development.
  • Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
  • Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
  • Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
  • Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
  • Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
  • Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.
  
  Additional Comments:

  • Minimum 10 years of experience • Flexible to work in any shift timings • Own, advocate, and coach team on Agile (scrum) processes, to higher levels of maturities by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the scrum framework. • Facilitates discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution across cross functional teams. • Ensure user stories were 100 % ordered, defined, and ready to be worked by the team. • Helps the team remove impediments to maximize delivery flow. • Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint review, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other related meetings. • Support the Product Owner through maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset, by providing transparency to the Product Road map and related project priorities. • Fosters open communication and transparency through building trust with in teams and across its members. • Motivate and enable the delivery teams to be self-organized. • Experienced in tracking burn down, issues using JIRA/Azure, and good at emphasizing team velocity

Skills

Sprint Planning,Jira/Azure,Agile Scrum Processes

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