Scrum Master at ThisIsMe Inc.

Job description

The ThisIsMe Scrum Master engages and facilitates all team members to ensure that all of the parts that make up the full deliverable (product or component) travels optimally through the development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the organization has the right skills, capacity, and processes to deliver on its development commitments.
• Manage the priorities and delivery of the different development streams to realize business value.
• Work closely with the development teams, product owners, and project team to pinpoint existing process flaws and identify a prioritized agile improvement roadmap to support consistent predictable delivery.
• High-velocity communicator - making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays & other issues are communicated to key stakeholders.
• Run weekly and monthly agile ceremonies efficiently and strictly.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, ensuring agile processes are followed, provide feedback to delivery teams and focus the teams on agreed sprint goals.
• Drives improvements that are generated by agile retrospectives
• Research and educate the teams regarding utilization of appropriate features of our agile management tools
• Provide update reports on Agile process for the wider company
• Facilitate the communication across different delivery teams to resolve dependencies and impediments.
• Work with the Product Owner and Project Team to protect the current sprint commitments and continually refine and prioritize the backlog
• Enforces the definition of ready for work coming into the development team
• Enforces and educates external parties about the process for submission of development work requests.
• Continuously educating the development team on scrum methodologies and best practices Coach and mentor the delivery teams to increase agile maturity across the company
• Actively contributes to the Scrum Master Community of Practice

Key Requirements

• Experience in the management of multiple information system development projects or teams.
• A Certified Scrum Master (PSM or CSM) preferred
• Tertiary Degree in Commerce, IT or Engineering preferred
• More than 2 years as Scrum Master in Agile Environment
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Ability to coach multiple teams to reach their highest potential and deadlines
• Proven ability to work independently without supervision whilst driving decision in a collaborative fashion
• Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies and best practice, including experience as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in a number of software development teams and industries.
• Ability to recognize areas for improvement and implement or work worth others to make the necessary process changes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - able to interact with a wide range of individuals from Developers, Testers and Product Owners to senior management and executives.
• Knowledge of and exposure to other software development methodologies and project management frameworks and concepts.