- Facilitates the activities of an agile team through encouraging and supporting the team to self-manage their work iterations using a leader who serves; management style.
- Ensures the self-organized team's continuous improvement through monitoring and coaching.
- Partners with the Product Owner through story mapping and other agile activities in order to support the product strategy and roadmap.
- Works with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog is prioritized and refined to the appropriate level.
- Ensures all Scrum team events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Removes impediments for the team and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Actively participates and contributes to the company's internal ScrumMaster Community of Practice
- Develops team members through coaching and by fostering a positive work environment.
- Proactively identifies risks and dependencies and escalates with Product Owner and leadership as necessary to mitigate risks and eliminate dependencies through incremental organization improvement.
- Collaboratively partners with various levels throughout the organization to achieve goals and remove impediments.
- Challenges existing workflows and processes
- Is responsible for radiating metrics such as the team's capacity, velocity, and health on an ongoing basis.
- Consistently advocates for agile/iterative development practices within the organization.
- Required Qualifications
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of information technology or product team experience
- 1+ years of experience in the ScrumMaster role
- Knowledge of various Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Etc.
- ScrumMaster Certification through the ScrumAlliance
- Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), work commenced toward this certification, or strong desire to begin working towards this certification.
- Experience within health care organizations
- Strong and practiced understanding of the fundamentals of agile and iterative development.
- Expert facilitator and collaborator
- Strong emotional intelligence and active listening skills with the ability to tailor communication style to a given person or audience.
- High energy, effective leader with the attitude of empowerment and ability to lead their team to self-organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across audiences with varying degrees of technical acumen
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Excellent collaboration skills
- Continual learner
- Strong and practiced knowledge of agile targeted tools.
Schedule/Location:
• M-F, 8-5pm (flexibility available with defining core hours).
NOTE: Email is the best way to reach me if i am not available at my number.