Job Description
Scrum Master
Onsite in Tallahassee, FL 12+ months
Job Duties:
- Serve as the Scrum Master related to the services rendered under this SOW.
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies (Refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, removing impediments as needed, stand-ups, stakeholder meetings, etc.).
- Coaching Agile/Scrum practices and ensuring correct use of Scrum process.
- Training teams to self-manage and self-organize.
- Ensuring the team works closely with product owner on backlog refinement for backlog priority.
- Resolving impediments in a timely manner.
- Resolving team conflicts and shielding the team from distractions.
- Identifying cross–team dependencies.
- Coordinating and assisting the team to create clear and concise epics/stories and sizing/tasking.
- Monitoring, tracking, and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
- Coaching the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiate information to ensure that a team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog.
- Managing Scrum task board for teams.
- Managing Scrum artifacts, including burn downs and burn-ups.
- Ensuring story points are effectively managed and measured.
- Attending Agile planning sessions with Agile program teams and assisting delivery team with estimating and accepting stories.
Job Requirements:
- First level Scrum Master Certification (Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- One (1)- three (3) years of Scrum Master experience with in-depth knowledge of Scrum and implementation of Agile Methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change projects and programs for a software development team.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of documented patterns and techniques such as Burndown Team.
- Foundation Server (TFS), and Retrospective formats for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.
- Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.).
- Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Agile scaling methodologies (e.g. SAFe).
- Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, Functional Design Diagram (FDD), etc.
- Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
- Effective oral, written, and presenting skills are required.
- Excellent mentoring skills.
- Knowledge of TFS to use as a tracking tool.
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