SCRUM Master

Skills required:

· Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence

· Responsible for ensuring the teams process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice

· Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring

· Facilitate project team meetings, project road-mapping sessions, gather feedback by presenting to all levels of leadership

· Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes

· Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management

· Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation

· Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution

· Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews

· Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed

· Ensure cross-team coordination

· Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal

· Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing.