Role : Scrum Master
NP : 30 Days
Location : Bangalore
JD :
The Scrum Master will be responsible for driving agile and scrum practices across the team and cross team collaboration. He/she will be a focal point for information flow between teams across onshore and offshore (BA, QA , Development and scrum management, Management, Product backlogs, release management etc) during the various projects/releases. Accountable for the complete project responsibilities and has to play the role of Lead.
Competencies:
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile practices and values towards the business/delivery goal
- Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Technical Skills:
- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 6-10 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Ability to strategize & facilitate Release / Product Roadmap workshops & bring visibility on product delivery key milestones with consideration of MVP
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Knowledge of Agile methods of development link: Scrum, KanBan, High level XP etc.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
Educational Qualification and Experience:
- Minimum of 15 years of formal education - Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology.
Required Certificate:
CSM
Safe
Professional Experience
- Over all 5 9 years of agile and scrum Management or related roles.
