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Scrum Master

Partners Soft
Middletown, CT Full Time
POSTED ON 3/28/2024

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Scrum Master:

Job Description:

The Scrum Master has the primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean/Agile mindset, adopting, and continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. As a servant-leader, the Senior Scrum Master plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and working with other Lean/Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, ensuring active participation and collaboration among team members
  • Foster a collaborative and self-organizing team environment, encouraging open communication and transparency
  • Work closely with product owners, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to prioritize backlog items and ensure alignment with project goals and priorities
  • Guide and coach the team on Agile and Scrum practices to ensure successful project delivery
  • Identify and remove impediments that hinder the team's progress, enabling the team to remain focused on delivering high-quality products
  • Proactively address issues, conflicts, and bottlenecks, ensuring a smooth and efficient workflow
  • Drive continuous improvement within the team by identifying opportunities for process enhancement and efficiency
  • Encourage the team to reflect on their processes and outcomes, facilitating discussions on lessons learned and implementing improvements
  • Monitor key Agile metrics and report on the team’s progress, velocity, and other relevant KPIs to stakeholders
  • Use data-driven insights to identify trends, potential risks, and areas for improvement
  • Provide training, mentorship, and support to team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices
  • Act as a servant-leader, guiding the team to become self-sufficient and empowered to make decisions

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or closely related field and 4 years of related experience; masters with 2 years experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
  • 4 years experience applying both the Scrum Framework and Kanban Method in growing high performing teams as a fulltime practitioner.
  • Experience as a Scrum Master and/or Kanban Coach at an organization that is committed to Lean-Agile as its core approach for delivering business value.
  • Experience working with teams applying test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery capabilities to achieve delivery speed and operational stability.
  • Experience using Lean/Agile collaboration tools like Rally, VersionOne, Jira

Desirable:

  • Experience influencing positive and impactful change in organizations working towards Lean/Agile adoption, learning, and growth.
  • Experience and core values are our top selection criteria; however, certifications help represent one's desire to build knowledge. Some certifications to be considered include Lean Kanban University s TKP, Scrum.org s PSM, Scrum Alliance s CSM/A-CSM, CSP-SM, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
  • Willing and able to provide and receive constructive feedback and advice with a growth mindset.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in a virtual video and remote environments using tools such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, MURAL, Trello, or other collaboration tools.
  • Manages time extremely well, can quickly sense when an issue needs to be discussed or triaged.

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