Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Facilitates the team's progress toward sprint and PI (Program Increment) goals: Scrum masters are team facilitators and are constantly engaged in challenging the old norms while keeping the team focused on the goals of the iteration.
Partners with the product owner to ensure team workload is appropriate and focused on the right goals and priorities.
Facilitates all team-level Agile ceremonies
Removes impediments and/or guides the team on how to remove them
Helps team stay on track for committed work; holds team members accountable
Monitors delivery progress and performance.
Communicates delivery status, updates, risks, and issues to product stream leadership and management, as necessary.
Helps teams to make improvements.
Responsible for metrics tracking and feedback loops to the team, product stream leadership, and management
Has a thorough understanding of, and coaches the team on, sprint planning, sprint capacity, velocity, story sizing, story risk analysis, and story management.
Supports the Solution/Release Train Engineer in PI Planning, including leading team break-out sessions
Ensures that team members maintain Jira and other repositories
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Servant Leader & Coach
Champions effective and open communications across the team and product stream
Facilitates team building, including fostering an environment of mutual trust, creativity, and empowerment
Guides the team and product stream on Agile/Scrum best practices
Leads the team's efforts in continuous improvement
Assesses and coaches the team to higher levels of Agile maturity, at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organization
Coaches the team to create and maintain team agreements, definitions of done, and other Agile framework
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Required Experience / Qualifications
Direct experience or strong understanding of using agile software (Jira) to design and execute work in sprint cycles while leveraging typical agile ceremonies within agile/waterfall software development lifecycles.
Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and articulate business needs for technical teams and technical solutions to the business.