Responsibilities

• Manage lightweight, living planning documents, like an Agile Product Roadmap.

• Conduct all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives

• Perform continuous and active backlog grooming

• Support all inter and intra team communication

• Calculate ongoing team capacity and velocity

• Help Product Owner with prioritization, risk management, and scope

• Lead working session meetings to discuss scope, schedule and requirements with product owners

• Oversee and manage implementation of various agile techniques such as TDD, BDD, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps

• Manage product quality, releases and delivery

• Work with stakeholders to accurately report progress, risks, successes, and failures

• Maintain a close working relationship with the product owner, scrum team and other stake holders

• Act as a mentor to ensure development teams work toward core the Scrum principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility

 

Requirements

• Experience playing the Product Manager/Scrum Master role for at least five (5) years for a software development team.

• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)

• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.

• Knowledge of other agile methodologies like Kanban

• Experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery , Automated Testing

• Expertise with JIRA, Confluence, and the rest of the Atlassian suite and using JIRA's Agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement

• Knowledge of Human Centered Design approach for developing digital services

• First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I, CSM) is highly desirable

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills

• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.