Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, grooming, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
Understands Testing processes and development platforms for high-level IT Enterprise systems
Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress
Assist technical team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
Collaborating with team, developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, including working agreements and definition of done
Identifying and removing impediments and preventing distractions
Maintaining process documentation, reports and applicable dashboards in either TFS or JIRA
Serving as an Agile coach within the organization, while implementing and socializing scrum to newly formed teams
Providing coaching and direction to team members
Organizing and facilitating team interactions with other departments and vendors who do not practice scrum to deliver products on time
Assisting with backlog maintenance, leading the team through long-term roadmap exercises, forecasting long-term project deliverables
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and broadcasting information, as needed
Project Planning, including development of a project plan
Documenting project scope, budget, schedule and organizational objectives
Facilitating and leading team meetings that are cross-functional in nature
Leading the project team through implementation of the solution
Managing vendor engagements, which may include facilitating selection processes, providing input into the Statement of Work, management of deliverables and vendor resources
Conducting project closure, and ensuring proper operationalization of effort
Acting as an ambassador of the PMO, answering company-wide questions
Supporting the publishing of the weekly PMO Summary and other PMO artifacts
Assisting in the maintenance of the PMO Portal and CA PPM
Status reporting
Participate in backlog refining, keeps the team organized and focused
Requirements:
Scrum Master certification
5-7 years of Scrum Master experience
Expert level facilitation and communication skills: ability to facilitate teams through tough conversations and maintain a positive and supportive team environment
Ability to respond quickly, flexibly and positively to change, using it as an opportunity to learn, develop, practice and support the organization
Ability to collect and analyze data
Ability to manage a budget within Excel
Excellent conceptual, analysis, organizational, and problem solving skills
Capable of defining problems, collecting data, establishing fact, drawing conclusions and recommending solutions
Microsoft Office Suite proficiency including Team Foundation Server