Scrum Master

My client based in Bellville (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for Scrum Masters to join them on a fixed term contract.

IT / Finance

Responsibilities

• Guides the Product Owners (POs) in discovery by practicing relevant agile techniques (e.g. journey maps) and facilitates in carving out MBI/MVP for larger epics.
• Supports PI Planning by facilitating timeous team breakouts and helps them identify their respective backlogs and dependencies.
• Guides the PO in elaboration to capture the key requirement details within the clients ecosystem.
• Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct the backlog refinement cadence to slice the feature to user stories at least once within an iteration.
• Creates and manages iterations within the clients ecosystem in alignment with the iteration schedule published by release management.
• Ensures daily stand ups are practiced so that the team has alignment on the value to be delivered on a given day.
• A quick view on what value was delivered the day before.
• Facilitates and ensures that the team conduct iteration planning cadences to plan for iterations.
• The opportunity to highlight any impediments that need to be removed to meet the iteration goal.
• Manages and ensures that the iteration board are kept updated to reflect the current status.
• Encourages the team to achieve a healthy burn down of user stories or features within an iteration.
• Represents the respective squads in squad sync and ensures that the teams are aligned, aware and adjusts for any technical dependencies.
• Works closely with End-to-End team, Ways of Working Support Services team and other support structures to ensure smooth functioning of the squads.
• Facilitates in show and tell (iteration demos and integrated system demos) and ensures the squads are able to effectively present their deliverables.
• Facilitates and ensures that the squads conduct retrospectives every iteration ensuring inspect and adapt principles.

Experience

• Shown on internal and external posting.
• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous.
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous.
• 2+ years Scrum Master experience in a fully agile and DevOps environment.
• Utilisation of dashboards, KPI / metrics, and burn down charts.

If you are ready for the next exciting step in your career, and would like to apply, please send us your updated CV to review.

Desired Skills

• Agile coaching.
• Scrum Coaching.
• Scrum Management.
• Scrum.
• Agile.