Scrum Master

Job Description

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies e.g. daily stand-ups, SOS, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives.
• Facilitate and coordinate with the wider stakeholders (like PM, BA, Dev, DB and QA team, respective leads and managers…etc.) to do sprint planning for the product delivery.
• Assist the team(s) towards achieving the day-to-day progress of sprint goals and release goals with regard to time, budget, scope and quality, by regularly monitoring and
• managing the metrics to meet release goals (Eg: Sprint, bugs and release burndown, team velocity…etc.)
• Work with Product Owner and business team to ensure product backlog is healthy, transparent and prioritize the list to generate higher business value. Co-ordinate with Product Owner for Product backlog management, concept refining and continuous delivery of features.
• Facilitate the management of technical backlog (technical debts, refactoring tasks and POCs/prototypes needed etc.) and track progress of work against those backlogs. Work with the architect, technical leads and scrum teams in distributed locations to drive technical refining, planning, issue resolution and development on those product specific technical debts.
• Facilitate the management of bug/defect backlog by working with product management to prioritize and defer defects. Coordinate with other teams to identify risks and to clear roadblocks.
• Protect scrum team from outside distractions (like unnecessary communication, dependencies etc.), proactively identify and remove impediments raised by team to deliver the product goals, any team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and delivery timelines which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to senior management stakeholders.
• Interface with project teams (particularly project managers, product managers & BA’s) to make sure that stories and other project deliverables to the scrum team are of sufficient quality and provided in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with release management and other stakeholders (like Dev, QA and DB leads, managers, and product owners to do release planning for the product delivery to ensure a smooth release process is maintained.
• Provide sprint reporting on scrum team delivery progress and team activity against release goals, product roadmap and strategical vision of technology department.
• Partner with the Dev. and QA leads and managers to provide leadership and mentorship to the team members.
• Ensure that sprint deliverables are adhering to the defined quality and best practice guidelines.
• Identify and control project risks by means of prevention, mitigation and contingencies.
• Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team understand how they are performing.
• Influence the Scrum team to increase productivity over a period of time by measuring and highlighting the opportunities areas.
• Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various scrum team members and outside the team and with the key stakeholders.
• Encourage and support an open, learning, and progressive environment to allow the team to innovate and explore new creative solutions.
• Coach Key roles such as other scrum masters, product owners and development managers to become more effective problem-solvers.
• Contribute towards building a community of agile champions, practitioners and enthusiasts that promotes learning by sharing.
• Be a very active member of Agile Workgroup and educate wider scrum teams and the wider business by conducting workshops and other means. Engage them in continuous learning in the application of agile and lean principles.
• Evangelise and preach agile principles and practices (like Scrum) across other departments in organisation and help in building the bigger agile community by spreading it across verticals in enterprise.