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Job Title: Scrum Master
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Charlotte, NC
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Know the Scrum Guide and apply its principles appropriately for your team to maximize their efficiency.
- Observe the team’s Agile/Scrum maturity and identify needs for Agile/Scrum training.
- Coach the Product Owner and team to create and estimate the Product Backlog.
- Facilitate discussions between the Product Owner and the team on priorities and dependencies.
- Review and update the daily Sprint and Release burndowns to measure velocity and predict release completion.
- Continue to update and analyze capacity, velocity, and scope and maintain a Project Burndown.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- 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.
- Ability to present to multiple levels of management and articulate the status of the project.
- Keep an eye on team morale, and coach when necessary
- Coach the team through adoption of the Agile Scrum process with positive and negative feedback.
- Facilitate story development workshops.
- Engage with management as appropriate to assist in removing organizational and systemic impediments.
- Answer Agile Scrum process questions.
- Determining communication plans and methods.
- Cultivate a Scrum Master and Agile Scrum network.
Experience:
- 5 years as a Scrum Master
- Scrum Master Certification preferred
- Experience guiding teams in leveraging Agile/Scrum practices
- Proven ability to remove impediments
- Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative development
- Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and analytical skills.
- Excellent spoken and written communication as well as receptive listening skills, with ability to present complex business ideas in a clear, concise fashion.
- Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to team development.
- Good relationship-building skills; ability to grow and nurture relationships with stakeholders.
- High energy and passion for the job.
- Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
- Experience and familiarity with common Agile practices, including an understanding of ceremonies, product backlogs, burndown metric and velocity
- Proven mentoring and coaching skills
- Enhanced facilitation skills with the ability to lead and demonstrate value, as well as to resolve conflict
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
