Scrum Master II
UST
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Team coordination: Ensure teams operate with agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice
- Dependency coordination: Work with teams to identify and manage interactive dependencies within a complex systems environment
- Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams to maintain their team data and collateral; keeping relevant over time to changing needs of the business
- Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices
- Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders; using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.
- Act as a role model for Scrum Masters and Agile champion. Contribute to expanding the understanding and practice of Agile principles and values throughout the entire organization
- Work with the teams to identify and mitigate impediments and risks to the program
- Lead the teams through Agile training and enablement sessions.
- Experience working at scale as a Scrum Master for squads that operate following scaling operating models (programs tribes portfolios release trains etc..)
- Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program
- Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability
sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives). * Conduct regular check-ins with all team members to provide performance feedback and offer coaching and mentoring
- Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e.g. Velocity
CFD’s
cycle time
etc) * Coach the teamthe product owner and business stakeholders on Agile practices and processes (e.g. methodology
acceptance criteria
user stories
estimation
etc.) * Provide training to the team on Agile conceptsvarious practices and frameworks
as required * Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e.g. MuralMiro
MS Teams
Zoom
etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency * Work closely with all teams in prioritization and planning new improvements initiatives.
- Apply quantitative management skills (e.g. using metrics to perform root-cause analysis
- Understand the customer's technology landscape and requirements
- Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan
- Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects
- Promote continuous knowledge management
- The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials
- Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress
- Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project
- The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances
- A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies
- The ability to work with challenging clients and stakeholders
- Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.
- Experience applying a variety of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Retrospective formats handling bugs Backlog Prioritization collaboration team building techniques etc.)
- Passion for Agile software development.
- Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
- Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
- Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
- Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
- Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
- Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.