Scrum Master I
UST
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Pune, Maharashtra
Contract type: Full time
Role Description
Role Proficiency:
Partner with up to two business and technology teams to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts; delivering the business vision.
Outcomes
Change Agent:
A motivated Scrum master to take our teams to the next level. Since our mission is to grow professionally and achieve results, we are looking for someone who can embark on this journey with us. This means you are:
Scrum Master,Agile Scrum,Scrum Methodology
Role Proficiency:
Partner with up to two business and technology teams to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts; delivering the business vision.
Outcomes
- Team coordination: Ensure teams operate to agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice
- Dependency coordination: Support teams to ensure smooth collaboration among ‘extended’ team members wherever required and enable clear visualisation of dependency blockers
- Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams maintain their team data and collateral; keeping them relevant over time to changing needs of the business
- Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices
- Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.
- Work with the Agile coach to ensure alignment to Agile values and principles.
- Percent of increase in Agile maturity as defined by the maturity tools i.e. adoption of Agile practices and participation within the team
- Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program
- Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability
Change Agent:
- Facilitate team events to drive Agile practices (e.g. daily stand up sprint planning sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives).
- Conduct regular check- ins with all team members to provide performance feedback and offer coaching and mentoring
- Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e.g. Velocity Burndown CFD’s cycle time etc)
- Coach the team the product owner and business stakeholders on Agile practices and processes (e.g. methodology acceptance criteria user stories estimation etc.)
- Provide training for the team on Agile concepts various practices and frameworks as required
- Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e.g. Mural Miro MS Teams Zoom etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency
- Understand the business requirements and interact with SMEs at various stages of development
- Understand the customer's technology landscape and requirements
- Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan
- Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects
- Promote continuous knowledge management
- The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials
- Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress
- Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project
- The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances
- A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies
- Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.
- Experience applying a variety of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Retrospective formats handling bugs Backlog Prioritization collaboration team building techniques etc.)
- Passion for Agile software development.
- Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
- Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
- Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
- Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
- Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
- Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.
A motivated Scrum master to take our teams to the next level. Since our mission is to grow professionally and achieve results, we are looking for someone who can embark on this journey with us. This means you are:
- Good at inspiring your colleagues to do better.
- Willing to forge our teams and coach us so we can grow together.
- Experienced in coaching teams - that work on the same product backlog - to cooperate and create great Product Increments together. Responsibilities
- Help our teams to be Agile.
- Intrinsically motivate teams to embrace the Scrum framework by creatively planting the right seeds, so that the team members want to improve themselves.
- With your passion for Agile, your knowledge of the Scrum framework and your people centric approach, you will create an improvement culture in which teams strives for quality, effectiveness, and job satisfaction.
- Facilitate creative and inspiring workshops and training courses. Trigger people to think in a different way, so that they get the most out of themselves and demand that from their teammates.
- Assist the OneID leadership team in organizational transformation topics.
- Facilitate the various (bottom-up) engagement/group initiatives in the OneID area.
- Face the change resistance and find alternative ways to succeed. Qualifications
- 8-10 years of experience in software development.
- 4-5 years of experience as a Scrum promoter, team coaching.
- You have a no-nonsense mentality, and capable of thinking objectively.
- You take the lead and get things done to ensure progress and on-time decision making where needed.
- You’re a listener. You hear what’s not being said and have a gift for understanding motivations and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
- You’re humble and take a real satisfaction in seeing others succeed.
- You are willing to travel to facilitate team sessions whenever required as feature teams are globally distributed teams.
- Experience in one of the scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Scale@Scrum etc.
- Experience in coaching 2-3 Agile teams in an Agile release train.
- Experience in Agile lifecycle management (ALM) tool such as Jira.
- You’re fluent in English and have experience in intercultural management.
- Scrum master certification is a plus.
- Prior experience as a developer or QA is a plus because this helps you understand development practices and team dynamics.
Scrum Master,Agile Scrum,Scrum Methodology
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