Scrum Master

•Scrum Masters coach the team in Agile practices and ensures that the agreed processes are being followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. They also work with the extended Scrum Master community, including Release Train Engineers and Solution Train Engineers, to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.
•Exhibit and promote Lean-Agile leadership
•Build solid relationships with the team and create a trusting environment
•Facilitate all scrum and SAFe events and ceremonies
•Make sure the team’s estimations are realistic and that they don’t take on too much
•Make sure communication is flowing well between the team, PO, RTE, other stakeholders
•Gather and document learnings
•Establish and uphold sprint lengths
•Facilitate creation of stories, tasks
•Help PO create definition of done and ready as to keep the backlog in shape
•Facilitate the team’s progress toward team goals - improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
•Help the team focus on daily and Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives
•Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events
•Work closely with Tribe Leads
•Encourage self-organization and ownership
Experience
•2+ years experience from agile ways of working
•Agile practitioner with experience in SAFe and other agile methods
•Experience in financial industry a plus
•Key competencies and ResponsibilityProven agile practitioner knowledge.
•• Help the teams to remove impediments and obstructions (sometimes by escalating them to the right level)
•• Coach team in improving and following agreed processes and practices
•• Create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within agile teams and groups
•• Ability to provide coaching both on team and individual level
•• Experience of various agile frameworks
•• Maintain PI and Sprint plan together with Squad
•• Coach team to become a proactive, self-driven, solution oriented, self-organizing unit
•• Help the team to remove impediments and obstructions ((sometimes by escalating them to the right level)
•• Coach team in improving and following agreed processes and practices
•• Coach Product Owner, Architects, team and other stakeholders in terms of communication flow, highlight communication issues and facilitate their solution
•• Prepare for PI Planning
•• Make sure that the team has a productive work environment
•• Foster an environment for high-performing dynamics, continuous flow, and improvement