- The Scrum Master is part of scrum team to ensure that define sprint goal delivered as per the sprint plan. The Scrum Master ensures that standard agile practices are followed by the scrum team conduct standard sprint ceremonies and resolve impediments. PRINCIPLE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
- Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Must be able to communicate well with teams
- Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
- Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
- Facilitates multiple Scrum Teams, ensuring timely delivery with quality to achieve customer satisfaction.
- Communicate with other management, developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Make sure that team is following agile/scrum in each sprint at user story level as per the Definition of Done (DOD).
- Propagates information promptly, clearly and unambiguously
- Knows when to make the call on a decision
- Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Able to diagnose, understand, and facilitate team dynamics.
- Consistently gauges how the team is doing and drives the necessary actions to improve.
- Facilitates team mechanics and energizes the people. Motivates, draws out, and rewards the best work from individuals on their team. Highlights exemplary behaviour, skills, or accomplishments.
- Excellent working attitude. Always looks for ways to make changes work rather than only identifying why changes can’t be done
- Stays calm and composed under stress
- Facilitates constructive debate to enable better decisions and shared vision
- Resolves disagreements and conflicts constructively. Knows when to involve others
- Demonstrates emotional maturity (discretion, objectivity, integrity, confidentiality) in all interactions
- Supports decisions that have been made, even when he/she does not personally agree
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in relevant technology and industry
Education :
- BTech / BE /M Tech / MCA/ BSc/ MSc with MBA (preferred) from reputed University Skills :
- BC - Dependability and Reliability- BC - Initiative- BC - Time Management- DC - US Healthcare domain Knowledge- FC - Oral Communication- FC - Written Communication- PC - Jiva Product Knowledge Competencies :
- FC - Coach Agile Practices- FC - Analytical Skills- FC - Communication Skills- FC - Facilitation Skills- FC - Driving Agile Methodology- TC - Agile Estimation and Planning- TC - Agile/Scrum e-tools like Jira, Versioni One, Rally- TC - Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology- BC - Collaboration & Interpersonal Skills