Scrum Master

Coach:

• Facilitate meetings, conversations, and improvements.
• Ensure that the goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the scrum team as well as possible;
• Find techniques for effective product backlog management;
• Help the scrum team understand product backlog items;
• Ensure the product owner knows how to arrange the product backlog to maximize value;
• Facilitate scrum events as requested or needed.

Protector:

• Limit interference so the team can remain focused.
• Remove impediments to the team's progress;
• Coach the team in organizational environments in which scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

Leader:

• Lead without authority and put the team first.
• Coach the developers in self-organization and cross-functionality;
• Leading and coaching the organization in its scrum adoption;

Advocate:

• Reinforce agile principles throughout the organization.
• Understand and practice agility;
• Plan scrum implementations within the organization;
• Help employees and stakeholders understand and enact scrum;
• Work with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Skills/Experience

• Experience of working closely with cross-functional development teams, at least 5 years working IT experience and in Scrum Teams
• Demonstrate good knowledge of agile development capabilities, in a leadership role.
• Effective facilitation skills, ability to facilitate workshops/meetings with all staff levels.
• Good technical understanding of scrum and other delivery methodologies and standard development methodologies, platforms, tools, and languages.
• Be a natural communicator with an ability to engage, influence and build relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and customers