Scrum Master

Work setup: 1-2 rto a month

Work schedule: 8am to 5pm

Responsibilities:

Ensure that SCRUM principles are understood, respected and maximized by the

team and product owner, to deliver on the agreed team commitments.

Ensure that the team's actions are always aligned with the acceptance criteria and

project goals and timelines.

On quality of input, work closely with the product owners and team leads in ensuring

the items in the product backlog are in READY state.

On quality of output, ensure that the team respects the definition of DONE.

Monitor sprint charts (burn down, cumulative etc.) and produce

reports/documentations and ensure that team product owners and other

stakeholders are aware of the current state of sprint/project/delivery as a whole.

Ensure day to day commitments are aligned towards the sprint goal, impediments

are actioned in a timely manner and risks are identified and mitigated accordingly.

Coaches and challenges both the team and Product Owner to discuss and align on

the priorities and scope of work to meet the delivery/release date.

Minimize errors by taking an organized approach to work assignments.

Help the team identify conflicting priorities and escalates issues that cannot be

resolved quickly.

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies - Make all time boxes respected with the goal of

making the team responsible for all Scrum ceremonies.

Gather requirements and breakdown into user stories Coaching the Product Owner

and the development team to have mastery in creating product backlog items.

Support the team during sprint planning in creating valuable tasks that will set the

backlog item status to DONE.

Formulate creative questions that will make the team more intuitive during sprint

planning, product backlog grooming.

Keep team capacity updated.

Initiate discussions and coach the team how to do the discussion with product

owner in case an item in the sprint is at risk.

Monitor team velocity and motivate the team to constantly increase its velocity.

Provide feedback to team leaders and release delivery

managers on team member performance during evaluations.

Always challenge the product owner to improve product backlog contents quality

by breaking them into more manageable items.

Always challenge the team to organize and to keep improving their skills and apply it

toward more agile mind-set and way of working

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer

Engineering or Equivalent

At least 1-2 year experience as a Scrum Master

At least 5 years working experience in software development projects using agile

and XP methodologies.