Scrum Master

Primary Responsibilities

Guide the Scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted SAFe Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities

Mentor and grow the capabilities and progression of your team members

Leverage your expertise to positively shift to lean agile mindsets, empower team members, and build a great team

Facilitate team organization and ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily standups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives

Prepare for and facilitate release planning with teams

Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams

Grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture

Understand and analyze performance measurements to facilitate team improvements

Maintain velocity, burn down/up reporting and communicate team progress

Ensure team is working efficiently towards clear, aligned sprint goals

Partner with Release Train Engineers to enable and embody SAFe best practices within your Agile Release Train (ART)

Support Agile Release Train incremental planning and facilitation activities across multiple teams and program areas

Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

Assess the agile maturity of the team and provide coaching to achieve higher levels

Remove impediments and make issues and problems visible; escalate as necessary

Assist with dependency management and cross team coordination

Build and maintain a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, judgment, or retribution

• Serve as the primary communicator of dependencies, timelines, and constraints for the team
• Work with Technical Product Owners (TPMs) and team members to develop and maintain prioritized, groomed backlog
• Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Foster team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Grow team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
• Act as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Teach new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Help the team to create high-value products with built-in quality
• Work collaboratively with shared services, operations, and other stakeholder teams
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management