Scrum Master

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices and their application for the delivery of projects and business initiatives and acts as an evangelist for adoption agile methodology within the enterprise.

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Ensures that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive for project delivery while facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and helps to remove any impediments to the project delivery.

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The Scrum Master guides, facilitates, coaches, mentor and teaches agile standards and Scrum practices (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) to the scrum, project teams and the whole development organization;

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Organizes and facilitates and leading scrum ceremonies (sprint planning meeting, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospects etc), events, meetings, and decision-making processes.

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Collaborates closely with Product Owners and Technology Relationship Management teams to prepare and clarify the Prioritized Product Backlog and the Definition of the Done Criteria and facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Reviews with the product owner.

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Facilitate identification of the stakeholders and manages the stakeholders and vendors as required for business projects or initiatives

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Responsible for creating release plans including deliverables and the release deadline, plans and estimates the highest value deliverables for the next release

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Demonstrate and Validate Sprints by facilitating presentation of completed Deliverables by the Scrum Team for the Product Owner’s approval

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Supports the Scrum Team in determining the length of sprint, creating the deliverables, identification of tasks and effort estimation for the tasks agreed for a sprint.

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Monitoring progress and performance of the scrum teams and Keeping the organization up to date on the progress of the scrum team’s projects & initiatives by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Helping the Scrum teams agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
2. Helping the team continuously make progress on the projects by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members’ progress, and protecting the team from distractions.

• 3.Working with the product owners to maintain a healthy product backlog.
• 4.Facilitating scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospect etc) as needed.
• 5.Working with the Technology Relationship management to interface with the product managers so as to prioritize and ensure continuous flow of delivery to meet business needs.
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Academic & Professional

• Experience

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Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

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Professional Qualifications

Scrum Master certification

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MASTERS

MBA/Msc

AA

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Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required

3

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Detail

Minimum No of Years

• Need Type[1]
• Experience of administering Burndown technologies, Retrospective formats, and handling bugs.

3

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An understanding of the rules and practices of other Agile approaches. This includes the differences between Scrum and Kanban and how they may be blended together for optimum results.

2

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Knowledge of technologies such as Extreme Programming, TDD, BDD and Crystal and their possible integration into a project based upon scrum techniques.

2

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An above average knowledge of technical matters in software development processes and procedures.

2

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Experience in Banking

2

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Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodology in successful projects

3

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