SCRUM Master

Skills required:

• Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence
• Responsible for ensuring the teams process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
• Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring
• Facilitate project team meetings, project road-mapping sessions, gather feedback by presenting to all levels of leadership
• Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
• Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management
• Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
• Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
• Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews
• Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
• Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing .