Scrum Master - Pella, United States - Apex Systems

Description

Scrum Master

Must be able to work hybrid out of Pella, IA

Full time, direct hire

Details:

1. Leads and fosters communication and collaboration amongst the team and stakeholders and effectively coaches team to be self-organizing and cross functional. Leads change through challenging the status quo and motivating others to deliver on commitments and think creatively.

2. Collaborates with the Product Owner and the Team to successfully complete committed user stories and ensures quality delivery of incremental value that is of the highest priority. Facilitates sprint ceremonies ensuring agile principles are embraced and adhered to. Inspects and adapts after each sprint to support continuous team improvement.

3. Utilizes meetings and other forms of communication to identify, track, and remove impediments, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and manage risk while minimizing various organizational distractions and interferences. Communicates and updates teams and stakeholders to ensure transparency and alignment with project priorities.

4. Creates and maintains metrics and artifacts such as sprint health, velocity, and sprint burn up/down charts in order to support release planning and strategic long term planning.

5. Create and maintain documentation and conduct end user training. Educate users in workflow, business processes, and reporting metrics enabled by system. Assesses Agile maturity of the team and coaches the team to higher levels to achieve goals and drive teams to be high performing

6. Support other team members by providing industry expertise on difficult and complex issues.

Requirements:

Work with business partners to scope and define requirements for Intelligent Operations solutions and lead teams through execution leveraging Agile & scrum methodology.

Coordinating team's work utilizing Agile format including daily, weekly, monthly cadence of communication. Hold team accountable to following standardized processes and team norms Leverage Operations Experience and Project Management skill set to help the team define work to be done (story writing), acceptance criteria, schedule/timing, effort estimates (pointing), and sprint plans

Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, and Stakeholders to ensure work priorities are defined, agreed upon, and align with business priorities. Work with operations, IT, and Agile team leaders to ensure alignment to priorities and manage resource dependencies Utilize leadership, influence, and communication skills to address roadblocks preventing the team from completing planned work Demonstrate expertise of Agile development, Agile methodologies (i.e. SCRUM, KanBan) and related best practices required

Demonstrate communication skills in both oral and written formats to increase understanding regardless of audiences, technical abilities, or status within the organization. Actively listens to gain information, increase understanding, and build relationships. Maintains transparency with information and knowledge to ensure work is completed efficiently Preparing and monitoring reports and metrics

Understanding/supporting internal and external data integrations with OE systems

Support releases/updates

Providing training as required

Demonstrated expertise of Agile development, Agile methodologies (i.e. SCRUM, KanBan) and related iterative software development best practices required

Demonstrated communication skills in both oral and written formats to increase understanding regardless of audiences, technical abilities, or status within the organization. Actively listens to gain information, increase understanding, and build relationships. Maintains transparency with information and knowledge to ensure work is completed efficiently

Must be able to facilitate discussion that represents all perspectives of a situation and bring the group to consensus to move forward in united direction. Must negotiate and mitigate conflict in a professional manner Thorough understanding of technology and business. Ability to apply knowledge into work product. Proven ability to analyze technical information, evaluate products, services and vendors, and make recommendations based on goals of project and organization

Ability to plan and organize time to be successful in environment of multiple deadlines and interruptions. Must be able to motivate others and reach success through their accomplishments. Must be able to respond and adjust to dynamic requirements, processes, and resources

Assist the team in problem solving as needed

Prepare and monitoring reports and metrics

Provide training as required

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