Scrum Master

• Assist the Product Owners and Development teams in the execution and delivery of the SCRUM teams’ commitments.
• Actively work with the leadership team, Program Managers, as well as Product Owners to assist the development team by removing impediments and coaching the teams on agreed upon processes to deliver committed functionality to the end user in their delivery of user stories and resolution of bugs.
• Provide project management support and oversight for the initiatives owned by your scrum teams and assist in supporting our Release Management team.
• Works with Product Owners and team members to ensure healthy backlog management and prioritization practices by facilitating the execution of backlog refinement.
• Assists the team in identifying blockers and solicits help from team members, product owners, or anyone in the organization who can assist.
• Assists with dependency management and cross-team coordination.
• Removes impediments to the team’s ability to perform.
• Plans and hosts the rituals of scrum, including the daily standups, the sprint planning meetings, the sprint demos, and the sprint retrospectives.
• Maintains the artifacts of scrum and making sure everyone has access to them.
• Coaches team members on their roles and responsibilities, while watching for problems and helping to resolve them.
• Coaches team on agile best practices.
• Encourages team responsibility, accountability, transparency, and self-organization.
• Gathers and communicates scrum team metrics to assist with team velocity improvements, planning, and estimation processes.
• Ensure that goals/objectives/ deliverables are defined for the team’s program, including the end objective definition, scope, and general timelines.
• Manage communication, coordination, and status updates between teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Track status and provide updates in relation to the overall program.
• Anticipate needs and drive results through planning, documentation, dependency coordination, tracking, internal training, and communications.
• Supports Product Owner and team on continuous roadmap planning activities, including discovery and project planning.
• Provide project and administrative support to our Release Management team.