Scrum Master (Parvana)

About the Client:

  • Our client has a highly engaged team of engineers, software developers, administration personnel and a leadership team held in high regard by its’s employees.

    They continue to grow steadily and now need to add energized members to our team from time to time.

Responsibilities:

  • Guiding / coaching the team / organisation to follow Agile / Scrum practices and to become self-organised.
  • Helping the team assess their Scrum Maturity.
  • Improving transparency within the team and removing impediments.
  • Being responsible for supporting and coaching the Product Owner on Agile / Scrum practices.
  • Communicating development efficiency and quality metrics to key stakeholders.
  • Driving continuous process optimization.
  • Creating the project plan based on the feature list and milestones.
  • Maintaining and communicating appropriate agile metrics.
  • Managing progress against the plan.
  • Communicating progress against plan to key stakeholders.
  • Highlighting any risks and putting together mitigating actions.
  • Providing mentorship and coaching to others in the team.
  • Assisting team members to grow skill and knowledge levels.
  • Sharing knowledge with team members.
  • Ensuring that the development team has the tools and environment to be productive.
  • Driving recruitment of development team and ensure that people leadership and training are in place.
  • Participating in general management and decision making.
  • Assisting with budgets.

Qualifications:

  • IT related Degree or Diploma and Certified Scrum Master

Skills / Experience:

  • 3 – 5 years as Scrum Master and more than 5 years in Agile Development Environment.
  • Demonstrable experience in energising and motivating teams whilst adhering to Agile methodology
  • Experience in resolving impediments and having control over the scrum processes
  • Knowledge of Agile approaches – Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
  • Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques – Automated Testing, User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Testing, Pairing, Agile Games, etc.
  • Adequate technical knowledge to challenge development estimates and impact of unforeseen impediments.
  • Knowledge of one or more Agile management and collaboration tools (Atlassian, Thoughtworks, Microsoft TFS).
  • MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).

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