Job Description :
In Agile, the Scrum Master is a challenging position as he cares about the team functionality. Scrum Master is responsible for monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. He increases his team efficiency, motivates his team, spins, argues for changes that will ensure quality and timeliness. He ensures the DoD (Definition of done) is being followed.
Essential Duties:
1. Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
2. Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organization.
3. Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
4. Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Required Skills/Experience:
1. Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. (Adjust based on your necessity)
2. Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
3. Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):
1. Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. (Adjust based on your necessity)
2. Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.