Agile Scrum Master Project C - Sandton at Guardrisk

Role Purpose    

• Facilitate the Agile Scrum ceremonies for the Data switching project for BDX and Master and Transactional Data for the Guardrisk Group business.  Facilitate the administration and reporting of the progress of the overall delivery to relevant forums.

Requirements    

• Appropriate 3/4 year IT/Business qualification – B Com or B Sc or B (Industrial Engineering) degree or equivalent Certified Scrum Master
• At least 5+ years experience in: Agile project delivery
• Understanding data projects
• Knowledge of numerous well documented techniques for filling the intentional gaps left in Scrum (E.g. Burndown techniques, retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Experience in managing multiple feature development in one backlog

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Ensure the Dataswitch delivery teams are practising core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritisation, team accountability, and visibility in accordance with relevant standards.
• Support the development process, the Product Owner and the scrum delivery team to ensure delivery of solutions and product releases.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies of sprint kickoff, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective in order to meet business requirements.
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint progress and maintain process documentation in accordance with best practice standards.
• Use appropriate communication channels within the scrum team to create a trusting and safe team environment.
• Assist with backlog maintenance and the facilitation of defects/bugs resolution to achieve and meet business needs.
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards in order to maximise team performance.
• Mitigate external disruptions and distractions, whenever possible, to ensure optimal team effectiveness.
• Support and educate Product Owners on maintaining the product backlog, actively managing this and preparing for next sprint.
• Monitor and ensure that items planned for the sprint are focused on, and unplanned work is identified and raised with the Product Owner to manage expectations and delivery.
• Provide the team with relevant prerequisites before sprints to enable them to deliver against expectations.
• Identify key dependencies and manage them closely to ensure delivery.
• Monitor and raise issues / blockers / risks early so they can be mitigated or cleared, enabling the team to deliver optimally.
• Track and ensure that delivery takes place according to the definition of Ready and/or Done.
• Optimise the velocity of delivery and focus on continuous improvement to enhance delivery and meet business needs.
• Facilitate discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team to ensure optimal team functioning.
• Work closely with Delivery managers / team leaders (Development and Quality Assurance) and peers to ensure the level of resources working on the sprints are of a high standard.
• Build relationships with clients as and where required to ensure delivery.
• Positively influence and participate in change initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum,
• Schedule and coordinate project meetings, workshops and agendas, as and when required.
• Assist the team in the booking external engagements with all key stakeholders as/when required.
• Maintain and update all project-related data and organise effectively to enable analysis.
• Provide Power BI views/reports:
• Overall Progress on Delivery
• Bottlenecks in Delivery of the Project
• Presenting in forums where feedback is required,

Competencies    

• Drive for Results
• Leads Change and Innovation
• Motivating and Inspiring teams
• Growing Talent
• Collaboration
• Impact and Influence
• Self-Awareness and Insight
• Diversity and Inclusiveness