Scrum Master/Team Coach

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reinforcing the rules of an Agile squad. These may include the rules of Built-In Quality practices, Work in Process (WIP) limits from Kanban.

• Facilitate squad events, including Daily Stand-up, Planning, Review, and Retrospective kept within the timebox.

• Support the squad in addressing and eliminating impediments to improve the conversation of planned vs actual commitments.

• Represent the squad in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the squad remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness.

• Facilitate and assists the squad in preparation for ART activities, including PI/BRP Planning, System Demos and I&A.

• Responsible for squad level progress report based on agreed KPIs and share it with management as agreed.

• Help the squad resolve interpersonal conflicts and challenges and identify opportunities for growth.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Support and help the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.

• Work with other Scrum Masters/Team coaches and stakeholders to help the team contribute towards improving the overall development Value Stream.

• Support RTE in PI/BRP planning readiness

• Help RTE in Essential SAFe/ART level governance reporting specific to their respective teams

Technical Skills :

• Estimation

• Agile Metrics

• Release Management

• Risk Management

• Product Lifecycle Management

Soft Skills:

• Effective Communication

• Facilitation

• Collaboration

• Problem Solving

• Empathy

• Stakeholder management

Tool Skills:

• Jira, Jira Align and SharePoint

• Power BI / equivalent reporting tool

• Confluence