Responsible for facilitating the scrum process on self-contained scrum teams with minimal cross-functional impacts.
Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
Proactively removes impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
Coaches scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.
Partners with discipline managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards.
Partners with Product Owner to ensure the continuous refinement of backlog, and that sprint goals are understood by the team(s).
Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the scrum team.
Partners with Product owners, Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team and escalates key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and makes adjustments accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.