Self-motivated, self-reliant Scrum Master will have the ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives under a minimal amount of supervision. Scrum Masters provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills to the agile development process and delivery of applications, as well as enforcing the agile tenets, removing impediments and promoting empowerment.
What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?
Fill the role of Scrum Master for two teams with the responsibilities as follows:
A Servant Leader whose focus is on the needs of the team members and the people they provide value to (the customer) with the goal of achieving results in line with the organization’s values.
Be creative in helping teams embrace agile principles while encouraging growth both individually and as a team
Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it
Provide team(s) with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver high quality working software
Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), refinement and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
Track and communicate various metrics per team including velocity and sprint/release progress
Coordinate each team’s work with other teams in the same release train (SAFe)
Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize
Identify and remove impediments - help prevent distractions that interfere with the ability to deliver the sprint goals
Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning goals in the division and team's environment including progress toward them
Supports Product Owner(s) ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story definition, story selection, task definition
Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria
Proactively manage dependencies
Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices
Participate in the agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners
Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops
Additional responsibilities within our SAFe ART:
Team Plan Tracking
Creation and Distribution of each team’s Committed and Completed documents
Present Team Plan during PI Planning
Facilitate Inspect & Adapt sessions
Create and Manage team Dashboards and Queries
Use ServiceNow to help team members overcome impediments
Assist each team with self-assessments
What are the requirements needed for this position?
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Industry certification is highly desired
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