Job Description
Job Title: Scrum Master
Location: Plano, TX AND Georgetown, KY (Onsite)
Job Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Proven experience in Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Scaled Agile, with a strong understanding of Agile principles and practices
- Ability to lead and facilitate three Agile teams, ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and adherence to Scrum processes
- Strong skills in conflict resolution and problem-solving to address team challenges and foster a positive team environment
- Experience in coaching team members on Agile practices and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Proficient in using Jira for project management, including creating and managing boards, tracking progress, generating reports/dashboard, and creating Jira Plans (roadmaps).
Skills :
- The Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating all scrum events and ensuring transparency to team's commitments.
- They support daily scrums, manage mitigation of impediments help track and remove blockers, and facilitate sprint reviews to gather stakeholder feedback.
- They also lead retrospectives, ensure follow-up on improvement actions, and manage team-level impediments
- Additionally, they track and report on team's delivery metrics such as velocity and burndown charts, coordinate backlog refinements, and provide agile coaching and onboarding support.
- Success is measured by the team's velocity stability, the percentage of committed work completed in each sprint, the number of defects identified post-sprint, the completion rate of retrospective action items, and overall team engagement and health, often captured through surveys or check-ins.
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