19 Apr
Scrum Master I
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SCRUM MASTER ILocation: Newport Beach, CAJOB DESCRIPTION
- Master who understands how the Scrum framework can enable agility within a team, is passionate about Agile, has the right mindset and is interested in helping to transform IT service areas to a new way of partnering with their customers and delivering value quicker.
- Facilitate and lead Agile events with the goal of delivering customer value and fostering continuous improvement amongst the team and the department.
- Promote communication and collaboration to build consensus for achievement.
- Identify and help remove impediments / distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver the sprint goal.
- Empower teams and facilitate creativity while guarding quality and monitoring progress.
- Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software, systems and capabilities to customers.
- Support team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
- Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise product backlog items and achieves this through techniques such as user story mapping and definition of ready / done.
- Proactively manage cross-product team dependencies.
- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product and Sprint Backlogs.
- Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile / Scrum practices and values to achieve the desired mindset.
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
- Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
- Supporting the Product Owner, advocating on their behalf and championing the goals and value delivered along the roadmap.
- Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product plan goals and progress towards them.
- Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
- Assisting and supporting the Product Owner and Team to continually improve the business value delivered.
- Supporting the organization's Agile journey with the focus on promoting, educating and evangelizing:
- Work with one or more Scrum teams to educate them and promote Agile practices while acting as a Servant Leader.
- Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration amongst Scrum team(s), Product Owner(s), practice areas and potentially Project Managers on the efficient delivery of product increments through self-organized teams.
- Disseminate relevant information to the team, stakeholders, leadership and the PMO as needed. Examples include the tracking and communication of team velocity and sprint / release progress.
- Work with other Scrum Masters and practice leaders to recommend improvements, assist in rolling out changes made to the practice and support the build out of a continuous process improvement focused organization.
- Evangelize and educate the organization on differences and benefits of an Agile mindset, Scrum framework and other techniques required to move the organization forward.
- Participate in the agile community both internal to Corporate IT and external with other practitioners.
- Senior level equivalent expertise in any technical discipline is desirable.
- Bachelor of Science degree in any Technical, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent level experience.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Industry certification preferred.
- Experience as a Scrum Master for IT teams preferred or equivalent track record of applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory in a product centric organization.
- Advanced understanding and a toolbox of Agile practices such as: retrospectives, daily standups, sprint planning, burn down techniques.
- Experience within a multi-team organization is desirable.
- Ability to collaborate and exercise influence without authority.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement practices.
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches (XP, Kanban, Lean) and familiarity with scaled agile (SAFe, LeSS, DaD, FLEX).
- Knowledge and or experience with widely successful Agile / DevOps techniques: User Stories, ATDD, UTDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, and Agile Games
- Experience with agile team tools such as Jira, Trello, VSTS or Azure DevOps.
- Participation in industry agile communities of practice desired.
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