Project Manager – Scrum Master
Project Manager – Scrum Master
We are looking for highly motivated, energetic and highly organized individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. In this role, you will be the team cheerleader/coach driven to do whatever you can to help the team succeed. You’ll help establish team metrics such as capacity and throughput so you can track sprint progress and help drive teams to meet their sprint goals. You are well-spoken and a natural leader who enjoys building relationships. You thrive on big challenges and bring high energy and enthusiasm to make things happen and achieve results.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Actively serve and support the Product Owner and Delivery Team in their quest to consistently meet sprint goals.
- Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution as needed to make sure the team stays aligned and focused on the highest priority.
- Guide the Scrum Team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and how to get the most out of self-organization
- Assess the scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is welcome, sustainable and comfortable for the team.
- Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right people help remove the blocker.
- Build 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.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and cascading information
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
- Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog.
- Effective facilitator and coach to development teams with the ability to adjust to change and deliver on planned outcomes.
- Knowledge of budgeting approaches and ability to apply policies and practices to support the planning and administering of a budget.
- Implements the mission, vision and objectives of the IT governance function.
Qualifications:
- At least 2 years of experience in software development delivery with at least 1 year of dedicated full-time Scrum Master experience in software development.
- Has a proven track record of successfully growing and maturing teams and/or experience leading Agile transformations.
- Is familiar with different agile methodologies including by not limited to Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile.
- Is able to coach and train team members and others on the Scrum framework and related artifacts (user stories, story point estimation, etc.) as well as other agile methodologies to help guide teams to more successful outcomes.
- Embody Scrum values and principles.
- Demonstrates and understands what specific Lean/Agile/Tools/Techniques/Principles to best apply, based on Team needs, environment and constraints.
- Displays a ‘continuous learning’ mindset; always seeking to expand lean/agile knowledge and experience.
- Capable of leading distributed and remote teams.
- Hold the Team accountable to the agreements they set and the commitments they make.
- Socialize and discuss team dashboards (burn ups, burn downs, etc.) always driving continuous improvement
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
- Experience in applying Scrum patterns and techniques (like Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
- Master of JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Second or Third Level Scrum Master certification (PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)