Scrum Master I - Thiruvananthapuram, India - UST
Description
Role Proficiency:
Partner with up to two business and technology teams to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts; delivering the business vision.
Outcomes:
- Team coordination: Ensure teams operate to agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice
- Dependency coordination: Support teams to ensure smooth collaboration among 'extended' team members wherever required and enable clear visualisation of dependency blockers
- Track and manage team
Visual Management Boards:
Help teams maintain their team data and collateral; keeping them relevant over time to changing needs of the business
- Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices
- Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.
- Work with the Agile coach to ensure alignment to Agile values and principles.
Outcomes:
- Percent of increase in Agile maturity as defined by the maturity tools i.e. adoption of Agile practices and participation within the team
- Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program
- Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability
Outputs Expected:
Change Agent:
- Facilitate team events to drive Agile practices (e.g. daily stand up
sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives).
- Conduct regular check
- Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e.g. Velocity
CFD's
cycle time
etc)
- Coach the team
acceptance criteria
user stories
estimation
etc.)
- Provide training for the team on Agile concepts
as required
- Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e.g. Mural
MS Teams
Zoom
etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency
Skill Examples:
- Understand the business requirements and interact with SMEs at various stages of development
- Understand the customer's technology landscape and requirements
- Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan
- Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects
- Promote continuous knowledge management
- The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials
- Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress
- Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project
- The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances
- A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies
- Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.
Knowledge Examples:
- Passion for Agile software development.
- Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
- Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
- Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
- Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
- Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
- Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.
Additional Comments:
POSITION DESCRIPTION Scrum Master
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in Business or a technical discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering) required. Continuous learning, as defined by the Company's learning philosophy, is required.
EXPERIENCE:
Ten years of progressive responsibility as a scrum master/agile project manager in an Insurance environment. Proven experience as a scrum master on several successful software development projects involving multiple developers is preferred. SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES (SKA)
REQUIRED:
- Clear understanding of one of the agile frameworks and key best practices (Disciplined Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc.)
- Knowledge of Spotify model is preferred
- Should be familiar with various Agile estimation techniques
- Should be familiar with scrum ceremonies
- Should have knowledge of agile metrics
- Should have prior experience managing onshoreoffshore model
- Should have experience managing medium to large development teams
- Should have good people management skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving and planning skills.
- Must demonstrate leadership ability to effectively interact with all levels of management.
- Stakeholder Management, Negotiation and Communication skills.
- Understanding of the
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