Scrum Master

  Job Description

Help self-organizing, self-managing teams achieve their goals

Implement and support principles, rules and processes

Identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow

Facilitates preparation and readiness for PI planning, Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshop

Guides team in estimating practices and facilitates team estimates

Supports Product Owner with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope

Coordinate activities with other teams, attend Scrum of Scrums

Coordinates with System Team, UX, DevOps, Shared Services and Release Management

Facilitate team progress toward Iteration Goals and PI Objectives

Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, Sprint Review, and iteration retrospective

Drives team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)

Encourages quality practices which ensure components, services, and applications which are delivered by your team(s) meet performance expectations, allow for graceful degradation, and are appropriately scalable (vertical or horizontal) for expected growth pattern.

Supports Communities of Practice

Builds a high-performing team – managing interpersonal conflicts, challenges, opportunities for growth, escalates people problems to team lead/management as necessary

Maintain team data in JIRA and Portfolio to support estimates and execution

Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program