Scrum Master
Location: Irving, TX
Duration: 6 months
KEY RESPONSIBILITES AND DUTIES
- As a Servant Leader, work with teams and facilitate/participate in all Scrum ceremonies and cross functional meetings to enable the development team with accurate and relevant information
- Ability to ensure the accurate use of scrum processes
- Work with Product Managers and Technical Managers to support Planning, Prioritization and Decision Making on high value features and enhancements
- Work with both Internal and External stakeholders actively to resolve impediments or address risks/concerns raised by the Development teams
- Supports reporting of team metrics to facilitate transparency of Team Productivity/Velocity and other relevant metrics Work with internal teams/stakeholders to help prioritize work that extends across multiple service and application teams and track interdependencies
- Attend the SOS meetings and surface any concerns that could derail/impact delivery across the Program as well as take back potential impacts/delays to the team
- Provide mentoring and training of the team, ensuring the adoption of Agile Practices and Principles
- Facilitate Root Case Analysis and proper documentation of Defects/Bugs
- Ability to act independently in both surfacing issues and facilitating issue resolutions
“MUST HAVE” SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Experience managing Multiple distributed teams that build Web applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document key decisions, risks and action items
- Problem Solving and Conflict resolution skills
- Experience working with JIRA or similar work tracking tools
- 5+ Years of Scrum Master Experience working with various Application/Service/Dev Ops teams