Scrum Master - IT-Online

At least 5+ years’ IT industry experience essential.
3-4 years’ experience within an agile development environment as a Scrum Master; advantageous.

Tertiary qualification. Advantageous.
Understanding Engineering practises and can coach teams in their use… is advantageous.
Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential.
Organise and help execute the Scrum framework: Scrum meetings (i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and metrics (burndown charts, predictability metrics).
Assist the product owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet agreed delivery time frames.
Make sure that all the team members understand their roles and fulfil them to the best of their ability.
Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and the ownership of the product – lead team to a self-organised state.
Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments.
Helps the team in its use of Scrum and Agile practices by motivating the team and reminding the team of its goals and how they choose to meet them.

Strong communication, coaching and facilitation skills.
Flexible, resilient, energetic and have an adaptive leadership style.
Influential.
Able to exert influence without authority inside and outside the team.
Strong logical thinking and deductive reasoning.
Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others.
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way.
Collaborative. Works to ensure a collaborative culture exists within the team.
Highly observant and an expert at root cause analysis.
Committed and responsible: Take responsibility without assuming any authority that might be useful in achieving it.
Humble and lead through Servant Leadership. Recognize the value in all team members and by example lead others to the same opinion.