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Senior Scum Master

Senior Scum Master

FROSTBYTEJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
3 days ago
Job description

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Responsibilities

  • Work with 2 – 4 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
  • Facilitate Scrum Events (Daily Stand‑ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming)
  • Facilitate Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning Sessions
  • Assist the Product Owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet delivery time frames
  • Ensure backlog is in good standing by having regular recurring weekly backlog grooming sessions
  • Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity and create flow of work
  • Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified problems
  • Help the team make achievable sprint commitments with the use of velocity data and team availability
  • Ensure the team / stakeholders adhere to the Definition of Ready (DoR) / Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Highlight risks and dysfunctions where the DoR / DoD is not met
  • Ensure the team uses the standardized reference story for estimating
  • Ensure understanding of the Agile principles and Scrum process, across teams and stakeholders
  • Ensure adherence to the Agile principles and Scrum process and help resolve any deviations
  • Help facilitate delivery solutions and manage expectations
  • Responsible for producing the following artefacts (Weekly Sprint Reports, Release projection / Burndown) to create visibility and transparency of the progress and status of the systems delivery

Technical Skills

  • Knowledge and / or experience of Kanban
  • Knowledge of the software development life cycle
  • Essential you are fully proficient at Jira administration, for example :
  • Understand the JIRA data model
  • Create and maintain workflows, transitions, post actions, etc.
  • Project administration
  • Create and maintain Users and Security Groups
  • Create and maintain fields and field configurations, screens and screen configurations
  • Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form

    • Qualifications

  • Matric
  • A tertiary degree (B.Eng, B.Com, B.Sc) is advantageous

    • Experience

  • Minimum 6 years’ experience working in a Scrum Master role
  • Minimum 6 years’ experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations

    • Seniority Level

  • Mid‑Senior level

    • Employment Type

  • Contract

    • Job Function

  • Information Technology

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