Scrum Master - Dallas, United States - JobRialto

Description

Job :

The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting Agile values and principles within the EDM development team.
The Scrum Master is expected to do anything possible to help the agile team perform at their highest level.

This may include:

helping to remove impediments to progress, facilitating meetings and working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is well - groomed and ready for the next sprint.

The Scrum Master acts as a buffer between the Enterprise Data Management scrum team and any distracting influences.

Responsibilities

Assists the team by showing them their planned velocity vs. historical velocity, to make sure the targeted work can be accepted

Helps Product Owner prepare through multiple levels of planning and road mapping discussions

Fosters conversations/communications

Enforces team ground rules and cultural norms

Reviews action items and next steps and holds team accountable for follow through

Facilitates Sprint Reviews; Works with Product Owner and team to determine the agenda for the review

Analyze and interpret sprint metrics

Status reporting and communicating accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholders

Facilitates Sprint Retrospectives;

Encourages other team members to facilitate

Captures info and summarize as sprint planning input

Backlog Refinement

Working with the Product Owner;

Helps Product Owner administer, prepare, groom, prioritize, and right-size the backlog

For new teams, the Scrum Master facilitates the tasking process

For mature teams, the Scrum Master charges the team with what they need to accomplish and asks the team to self-organize to accomplish the sprint goals

Ensures the team is fully functional and productive

Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions and removes barriers

Shields team from external interferences

Helps the team be productive

Encourages team to be more self-organizing and self-managing

Identifies, eliminates, or escalates impediments

Stays focused on delivery and quality, by encouraging teamwork and collaboration and minimizing silos and hand-offs

Finds techniques for effective product backlog management

With the Product Owner, clearly communicates product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development team

Monitors team for:

Agile anti-patterns

People working in isolation for more than a day

Anyone making little visible progress

Wait times or other wasteful processes

Poor software engineering practices

Infrequent builds

Opportunities to amplify cross-training and T shaping

Slippages in quality or velocity trends

Ensures application of agile principles and understanding and practicing of agility

Fosters creativity and empowerment

Ensures the process is followed

Facilitates retrospectives and promotes continuous improvement

Education: Bachelors Degree