Duration: 11 months likely to extend
Company: Fortune 100
Job Description:
This person will have overall responsibility for engaging the team in the implementation of the Agile Scrum process. Their role is as facilitator, instigator, and shepherd of the Agile Scrum Process. They will facilitate team discussions to discern where each unique team is on their Agile Journey and note areas of risk or resistance and develop actions to coach the team through these hurdles. This role will be supporting the Product Owner with project/release status, documenting velocity, capacity, individual sprint burndowns, overall project Burndown, facilitating discussions for Sprint Planning and Retrospectives. It is critical that this individual keeps encouraging the team to express themselves openly and respectfully and develop accountability to each other and commitment to the project
Responsibilities:
• Facilitate team training and notate team’s maturity in the Agile Scrum process
• Coach the Product Owner and team through creating and estimating the Product Backlog
• Review and update the daily Sprint and Release burndowns to measure velocity and predict release completion
• Facilitate negotiations between the Product Owner team and development team on priorities and dependencies
• Continue to update and analyze capacity, velocity, and scope and maintain a Project Burndown
• Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning sessions and Retrospectives to keep the team focused and on track with the objective and make the meetings efficient.
• Skillfully facilitate discussions and know when to allow a deeper discussion to continue, when to cut the discussion off, or redirect the discussion to a parking lot for discussion with a smaller group.
• Provide data such as the release burndown to the Product Owner and relevant levels of management to help them engage in data-driven decision making
• Present to multiple levels of management and articulate the status of the project
• Coach the team through adoption of the Agile Scrum process with positive and negative feedback
• Engage with management as appropriate to assist in removing organizational and systemic impediments
• Accountability to team for documenting progress and publishing the results with transparency in printed (Information Radiators in the team room) and electronic formats such as maintaining a team website
• Determining communication plans and methods
• Facilitate in the key Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Developer Demonstration).
Experience:
• 3-5 years as project leader or Scrum Master
• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to team development.
• High energy and passion for the job
• Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
Contact:
Hubert Magsalin
Technical Recruiter
PSG Global Solutions
303-547-1959
Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.
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PSG is the world’s largest and fastest growing provider of outsourced recruiting support. PSG has clients across the globe, including four of the world’s ten largest staffing companies, 20% of the Staffing Industry Analysts Top 50 and multiple Fortune 500 corporations. With decades of experience in both staffing and the broader outsourced services sector, our services are easy to implement, cost effective, and drive real bottom line results. We have close to 1,200 people at our recruiting centers in the Philippines, the preferred offshore location for supporting the US and global English speaking countries. We built our company from the ground up to take advantage of an offshore delivery model closely aligned with onshore client management. With this approach, our goal is to deliver onshore performance while significantly lowering costs with offshore frontline resources. Many of our customers have had poor experiences with offshore support prior to working with us. With these customers in particular, we are thrilled when they become a case study and talk about their success in our marketing materials and with their colleagues. We partner with every customer using a consultative approach to establish a value delivery framework to ensure we are improving their profitability with every PSG resource assigned to their team.