Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Scrum & Agile Facilitation Facilitates all Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives, ensuring the team collaborates effectively toward sprint goals. Supports PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt sessions for teams operating within SAFe. Ensures adherence to Agile principles and practices while promoting transparency, accountability, and relentless improvement.
Team Coaching & Support Coaches teams on Agile practices, team dynamics, self-organization, cross-functionality, and continuous improvement. Removes impediments to ensure steady progress while protecting teams from outside distractions. Reinforces strong engineering practices, including refinement, estimation, story grooming, and sprint readiness. Collaborates and partners within and beyond the teams. Build productive relationships with others. Seek out and consider diverse points of view.
Product Delivery & Stakeholder Collaboration Partners closely with Product & Technology Owners to refine backlogs, prioritize stories, and ensure clarity in requirements. Tracks and reports team metrics (velocity, burndown, cycle times, maturity indicators) to stakeholders and leadership. Supports development teams in maintaining visibility of work, risks, dependencies, and deliverables. Guides, motivates, and inspires others to think differently and deliver results. Anticipates and addresses others concerns to build buy-in for recommendations and decisions.
Cross-Team & Organizational Alignment Serves as a liaison between multiple Agile teams, Business Owners, QA, Architecture, and other dependent teams. Helps align team execution with program-level or release-level goals, especially for cross-product or multi-team initiatives. Supports compliance with organizational Agile SDLC standards and governance processes.
Experience and Skills:
6 + years' experience as a Scrum Master.
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