Scrum Master

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POSITION INFO:

Purpose:

• Help form a self-managed team that is motivated, predictable, transparent and consistently delivers quality work and continually inspects and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the Agile values, principles and practices
• Facilitates the removal of impediments teams face when developing solutions
• Implements agile best practices within a team
• Helps the development team, business and management develop a culture of collaboration - Act as a change agent to the team and organisation Supports the team to be self-organising and function as an accountable, high performance team
• Focused and goal driven and helps to achieve the Sprint goals
• Be a master facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum master for 2 – 4 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
• Facilitate Scrum Events ensure that they are focused and productive (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming)
• Help facilitate Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning Sessions
• Assist the Product Owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet delivery time frames
• Ensure backlog is in good standing by having regular re-occurring weekly backlog grooming sessions
• Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity and create flow of work
• Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments
• Help the team make achievable sprint commitments with the use of velocity data and team availability
• Raise issues that are putting delivery at risk as soon as they arise
• Help facilitate delivery solutions and manage expectations
• Responsible to produce the following artefacts (Weekly Sprint Reports, Release projection / Burndown) to create visibility and transparency of the progress and status of the systems delivery
• Continually grow and share Agile knowledge.

Requirements:

• Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle Essential you are fully proficient at Jira administration, for example:

1. 1. Understand the JIRA data model
   2. Create and maintain workflows, transitions, post actions, etc. o Plugin evaluation
   3. Project administration
   4. Create and maintain Users and Security Groups
   5. Proficient in writing JQL queries
   6. Create and maintain fields and field configurations, screens and screen configurations

• Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
• Working with ServiceNow IT Business Management (ITBM) advantageous
• Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) advantageous

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