Scrum Master

Job Purpose
The job holder:
- Upholds and promotes Scrum by helping 1 - 2 Squads / Scrum Teams understand and apply Scrum values, theory, rules and practices.
- Serves as a conduit between product owners and development teams to achieve specific milestones and deliverables.
- Ensures that squads are working on the right tasks at the right time according to agile principles.
Key Accountabilities (1)
Scrum Standards and Efficiency for Squads
- Facilitate squads or project teams to think out-of-the-box and collaborate to improve efficiency and velocity.
- Guide teams for continuous improvement momentum and clear obstacles to help them meet delivery timelines.
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review/showcase, sprint retrospective) for 1-2 squads.
- Support Product Owners on features backlog, prioritization and release planning that will realise the greatest business value.
- Help team members to use and navigate agile tools and software (Confluence, Jira, Slack, Trello, PPM).
- Map out execution plans and communicate roles, responsibilities, objectives, commitment, deliverables and schedules for tribes and squads.
- Discuss open issues, status and roll forward action items (focus on process-oriented issues).
Key Accountabilities (2)
Coaching and Training
- Work with Agile Coach to drive overall coaching program for squads.
- Develop and implement different retrospective formats to promote fun and engaging team events.
Key Accountabilities (3)
- Use concepts of game thinking and game mechanics to engage users in problem solving.
- Deliver basic level training on agile and scrum methodologies.
- Help squads identify gaps between current practices and Agile and Lean values, principles and practices.