MO-128-Scrum Master & Agile Coach (788415)
Focused HR Solutions
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Job summary
Focused HR Solutions has an opening for Scrum Master & Agile Coach (GDOT IT Division) in Atlanta, GA. The role supports agile teams, guides Scrum and Kanban practices, and coaches IT Team Leads to deliver value. Hybrid work with 2-3 days onsite; contract up to 9 months.
Requirements include 5+ years with Agile teams, Scrum Master certification, and proficiency in Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow ITSM, MS Teams, and Office365. Local candidates only.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working with Agile Teams
- Strong knowledge of Scrum and Kanban methodologies
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Ability to analyze, identify, and resolve team impediments
- Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs aligned with IT leadership priorities
- Strong communication skills to enable collaboration among team members and stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Scrum and Kanban events to reinforce Agile principles
- Coach IT Team Leads to empower self-organizing teams
- Analyze and remove impediments to maintain smooth delivery
- Manage and prioritize backlogs in collaboration with Technical Leads
- Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and actionable changes
- Foster collaboration across teams and stakeholders to ensure successful incremental deployments
- Document best practices and maintain a living Working Agreement for teams
Skills
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Job description
The Scrum Master Coach role for Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) IT Division includes facilitating and teaching IT Team Leads how to effectively run Scrum events, to reinforce GDOT-adopted Agile principles, to manage incidents continuously and effectively, to analyze and remove impediments, and how to guide teams in both the Scrum and Kanban frameworks to create productivity. This hybrid role requires strong facilitation and coaching skills to help Team Leads to empower groups to self-organize, use ticket tracking tools correctly, reinforce processes, and enhance collaboration while delivering value in alignment with IT leadership prioritization. Key responsibilities include guiding IT Team Leads in daily management of project and operational backlogs, fostering continuous progress on prioritized items, and teaching IT Team leads to apply both Scrum and Kanban practices with reporting to optimize workflow efficiency.
Train and support IT Team Leads in leading Scrum events such as daily stand-ups, planning, sprint planning reviews, ticket tracking board clean-up activities, and retrospectives with the intention of IT Team Leads becoming proficient. The Scrum Master/Coach will assist with ceremony refinement to promote best practices for items such as story writing and task prioritization and participation. The collaboration with the IT Team Lead will also ensure that they become organized, informed, project tool proficient, and assess meetings to ensure relevant team members are present and informed of prioritization of their items ensure buy-in, alignment, and project success. The Scrum Master Coach uses their daily observations to facilitate trainings, education, and documentation to reinforce all incorporated best practices to ensure team accountability, tracking of project/ticket progress, the awareness, acumen, and participation of IT Team Leads.
In daily scenarios, using communication and project management tools, train IT Team Leads to manage incidents and to identify and remove blockers that hinder the teams’ progress. Identify when dependency analysis is necessary and incorporate that into a plan to handoff to GDOT IT to incorporate into their ceremonies.
Collaborate with the Technical Leads and IT Management to train on keeping and maintaining a clear, prioritization-aligned, and well-managed product backlog.
Facilitate continuous improvement through retrospectives and help teams implement actionable changes that are scheduled and are in a process where they will not be ignored.
Redirect IT Team Leads to adhere to the chosen Scrum framework (Sprints for developers and Kanban for infrastructure/operations) best practices, including implementing and incorporating Kanban’s operational functionality that creates flexibility, WIP limits and the documentation of repeatable tasks that can be used to improve throughput.
Coach Sprint Teams and Kanban Teams to work collaboratively to ensure communication to work toward an eventual successful incremental deployment.
Focus on improving the team's overall effectiveness and ability to deliver high-quality products by documenting all training for IT Team Leads and best practices in a living Working Agreement for teams to refer to when there is ambiguity around team/team member roles and best practices.
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills. This includes documentation of items taught to ensure a working agreement is tracked and updated with expectations and a commitment to best practices for those being trained.
- Ability to analyze, identify, and resolve team impediments and conflicts.
- Experience in managing and prioritizing backlogs that align with IT Leadership priority.
- Strong communication skills to facilitate collaboration among team members, technical leads, architects, project managers, security team, and stakeholders.
- Understanding of how to apply Kanban's core principles, such as explicit workflow, visualizing work, and limiting work in progress.
- Understanding of how to apply Scrum Team best practices to ensure successful daily scrums, collaboration, alignment, risk analysis, and participation for ongoing team dynamics that facilitate successful iterative deployments.
- Servant leadership mindset, focusing on team needs and enabling them to be self-organizing.
- Proficient in Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), ServiceNow (ITSM and Agile Modules), MS Teams, and Office365.
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