Scrum Master at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job description

Description

The Scrum framework is an integral part of the IT software delivery process within Allan Gray. The purpose of a ScrumMaster is to: help form a self-managed team that is happy, predictable, transparent, consistently delivers quality work and continually inspect and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the values, principles and practices of scrum facilitate the removal of impediments teams face when developing solutions implement agile best practices within a team help the team to develop a culture of collaboration support the team to be self organising and function as an accountable, high performance team.

Main responsibilities

Organise and execute the scrum process: Scrum meetings (i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and scrum metrics (burndown charts, predictability velocity) Assist the product owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet agreed delivery time frames. Make sure that all the team members understand their roles and fulfill them to the best of their ability. Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and the ownership of the product - lead team to a self-organised state. Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments Helps the team in its use of scrum by motivating the team and reminding the team of its goals and how they choose to meet them.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification with at least 5+ years industry experience.
• Minimum of 2-3 years experience within an agile development environment as a Scrum Master

Skills/Competencies And Experience

• Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential.
• Strong communication, coaching and facilitation skills
• Flexible, resilient, energetic and have an adaptive leadership style Influential.
• Able to exert influence without authority inside and outside the team Strong logical thinking and deductive reasoning.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Self motivated and the ability to motivate others
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way.
• Collaborative. Works to ensure a collaborative culture exists within the team Highly observant and an expert at root cause analysis
• Committed and responsible: Take responsibility without assuming any authority that might be useful in achieving it.
• Humble: Recognize the value in all team members and by example lead others to the same opinion.