Principal Accountabilities and % of time
Work with primary scrum team - 90%
- Facilitate the appropriate scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, sprint/release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Inspire the agile product team to embrace the full adoption of scrum practices by coaching the team on the framework and instilling an inspect and adapt mindset
- Empower the team to self-organize in pursuit of a better, more fulfilling experience and improved productivity
- Generate a common understanding amongst the team of the product vision and strategy
- Create an environment for the agile product team to thrive by protecting the team from outside distractions and over commitment
- Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement agile best practices
- Design processes and practices to help the team anticipate and identify impediments while resolving basic team impediments. Recognize when to escalate the impediments and who to involve
- Assist in team development while holding team members accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, and mentoring and developing team members
- Ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
- Advise and coach the Product Owner on the scrum framework, getting items to ready , user story best practices, writing good acceptance criteria
- Drive sharing of scrum best practices across Bain agile teams
- Provide management level reporting on project status, risks and mitigation strategies
- Track and communicate team velocity, happiness and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
- Agile champion - 10%
- Contribute to initiative work within the capability team
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Associates/bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- 3-5 years experience on an agile team in a Scrum Master or similar role
- Some expertise in agile ways of working or demonstrated motivation to learn
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, and dependable
- High level of detail orientation
- Proactively identifies conflicts or roadblocks, often able to resolve independently
- Effective conflict resolution skills
- Flexible to shifting priorities
- Aspires to learn from best demonstrated practices and to improve work efficiency and sustainability
- Ability to work independently and with teams
- Demonstrated aptitude to follow technical discussions
- High performance and standards as demonstrated by academic or previous job experience
