Scrum Master

  • Contract

Job Description

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Job Title Scrum Master

Primary Skill Scrum Master

Duration 12 month

Position Type Contract

Location Hanover, MD

Job Description Essential Functions:

Strongly serving the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers

Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values in order to fully realize the potential of Agile/Scrum frameworks

Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organization

Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example

Leverage Agile Coaches and best practices available in Agile Center of Excellence in order to constantly improve team efficiency

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)

Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)

Preferred Abilities and/or Skills:

Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)

Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc

Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team

Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)

Previous experience as a team lead

Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Core Competencies:

Customer Service

Building Relationships

Business Knowledge / Organizational Acumen

Initiative and Drive

Leading Self and Others

Additional Information

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