ACL Digital
SCRUM Master - Senior (6-10 Yrs)
ACL Digital, Roanoke, Texas, United States, 76299
Description:Senior: Skills equiv. to 6-10 years in comparable position.Responsible for overseeing all task activities assigned to the Scrum team are performed in a timely manner with minimal technical debt, while maintaining the highest quality of performance. Will interface with client personnel and use oral and written communications skills to develop great working relationships with stakeholders.Will lead a Scrum team to perform planning, development and testing on a large software development, implementation and integration project.Conduct all Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective and client demos. Interface with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.Remove obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.Ensure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a daily basis.Must have experience managing software development projects, preferable managing or performing software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach.PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Scrum Master (CSM) certification preferred.Ability to apply scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.Required Skills:
The Scrum Master is a servant leader responsible for coaching the Scrum teams to make progress, learn, and function at the highest level, which includes removing impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, and working with product owners to ensure product backlog is well-groomed and ready for the next sprint, and acting as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences.This requires a good understanding of the Scrum framework and the ability to train others on it. Responsibilities Sprint Planning & FacilitationShow team planned velocity vs. historical velocity, to make sure targeted work can be acceptedHelp Product Owner planning and road mapping discussionsFoster conversations/communications Enforce team ground rules and cultural normsReview action items and holds team accountable for follow throughFacilitate Sprint Reviews; Work with Product Owner and team to determine agenda for the reviewAnalyze and interpret sprint metricsGive status reports; communicate accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholdersFacilitate Sprint Retrospectives; Capture info and summarize as sprint planning inputWork with Product Owner to administer, prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size backlogFacilitate tasking process or charge the team with what needs to be accomplished so that team can self-organize and accomplish sprint goals Keeps whole team(s) moving forward; Fosters team's self-organization and remove distractions, impediments, and roadblocks are removed. Facilitate regular agile events to ensure progress.Ensure the team is fully functional and productiveEnable close cooperation across all roles and functions and removes barriersShield team from external interferencesEncourage team to be more self-organizing and self-managing Coach the team(s); Help Product Owner understand how to create and maintain proper product backlog. Work with team to determine definition of done. Coach the team on how to execute the Scrum processes.Find techniques for effective product backlog managementWith the Product Owner, clearly communicates product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development teamMonitors team for:
Agile anti-patternsPeople working in isolation for more than a dayAnyone making little visible progressWait times or other wasteful processesPoor software engineering practicesInfrequent buildsOpportunities to amplify cross-training and "T" shaping --Slippages in quality or velocity trends Facilitate whole teams understanding of ScrumEnsures application of agile principlesEnsures understanding and practicing agilityFosters creativity and empowermentEnsures the process is followedFacilitates retrospectives and promotes continuous improvement RequirementsMust be able to communicate well with teams and demonstrate value-add principlesExperience as a Scrum Master for a software team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory preferredMust have the requisite agile knowledge of software development experience to coach and guide Development Team members on how to improve their skills.Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and make the tough callsAbility to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
The Scrum Master is a servant leader responsible for coaching the Scrum teams to make progress, learn, and function at the highest level, which includes removing impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, and working with product owners to ensure product backlog is well-groomed and ready for the next sprint, and acting as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences.This requires a good understanding of the Scrum framework and the ability to train others on it. Responsibilities Sprint Planning & FacilitationShow team planned velocity vs. historical velocity, to make sure targeted work can be acceptedHelp Product Owner planning and road mapping discussionsFoster conversations/communications Enforce team ground rules and cultural normsReview action items and holds team accountable for follow throughFacilitate Sprint Reviews; Work with Product Owner and team to determine agenda for the reviewAnalyze and interpret sprint metricsGive status reports; communicate accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholdersFacilitate Sprint Retrospectives; Capture info and summarize as sprint planning inputWork with Product Owner to administer, prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size backlogFacilitate tasking process or charge the team with what needs to be accomplished so that team can self-organize and accomplish sprint goals Keeps whole team(s) moving forward; Fosters team's self-organization and remove distractions, impediments, and roadblocks are removed. Facilitate regular agile events to ensure progress.Ensure the team is fully functional and productiveEnable close cooperation across all roles and functions and removes barriersShield team from external interferencesEncourage team to be more self-organizing and self-managing Coach the team(s); Help Product Owner understand how to create and maintain proper product backlog. Work with team to determine definition of done. Coach the team on how to execute the Scrum processes.Find techniques for effective product backlog managementWith the Product Owner, clearly communicates product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development teamMonitors team for:
Agile anti-patternsPeople working in isolation for more than a dayAnyone making little visible progressWait times or other wasteful processesPoor software engineering practicesInfrequent buildsOpportunities to amplify cross-training and "T" shaping --Slippages in quality or velocity trends Facilitate whole teams understanding of ScrumEnsures application of agile principlesEnsures understanding and practicing agilityFosters creativity and empowermentEnsures the process is followedFacilitates retrospectives and promotes continuous improvement RequirementsMust be able to communicate well with teams and demonstrate value-add principlesExperience as a Scrum Master for a software team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory preferredMust have the requisite agile knowledge of software development experience to coach and guide Development Team members on how to improve their skills.Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and make the tough callsAbility to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.