Scrum Master
Is coaching Agile teams and partnering with Product Owners to deliver business commitments your passion? Do you run your personal life with daily standups, burndown charts, and Rapid Boards?
The Opportunity
The Scrum Master provides daily coaching and coordination to one or more Agile teams. This role is responsible for ensuring the Agile Team is working efficiently and effectively by synchronizing activities and removing obstacles in the way of successful delivery. The Scrum Master partners with the Product Owner to ensure the team understands the team’s purpose, deliverables, and schedule to deliver on business commitments.
What We Do
Silverchair is a product development partner to the Scientific, Technical, and Medical scholarly and professional publishing industries. What that really means is we use and create advanced technologies to connect doctors, scientists, and researchers to the information they need to keep up with cutting edge research, diagnose complex conditions, or survey the literature within thousands of topic areas. Silverchair facilitates this activity by developing incredibly dynamic online tools and applications.
How We Do It
Over the last 25 years, we have learned a lot from both failures and successes. We maintain a progressive mindset and aim to create the knowledge products of the future and we expect the same mindset from our carefully selected team of professionals be progressive, be excellent, and learn constantly.
What You Will Be Doing
- Provides servant leadership to the team, garners respect from team(s) and is willing to get hands dirty to get the job done
- Prepares, moderates, and follows up on regular Scrum ceremonies; including daily stand-ups, sprint and release planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Facilitates Agile team for scope refinement, estimation, and planning activities to ensure teams approach will deliver desired business value
- Removes impediments or guides the team by finding the right person/people to remove the impediment, leveraging tools and processes such as the teams JIRA board, governance, and risk profiles
- Builds a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged
- Supports the Product Owner with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog
- Supports team in drafting and adhering to agreements for definition of ready and definition of done
- Facilitates cross-team and organizational dependencies to ensure decision making and conflict resolution occurs in a timely fashion
- Communicates team progress to Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders
- Creates and publishes metrics to track and review team performance, including burndown charts, velocity, and other sprint and release metrics
- Assesses the Scrum maturity of the team and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team
- Tracks progress of team project scope and works with Product Owner to create change orders for additional or reduced scope as appropriate
- Leads multiple teams with multiple levels of seniority to accomplish project goals
- Is the driving force ensuring that the team is following Silverchair’s Agile standards
What You Need to Bring
- A Bachelors degree (BA or BS) with 3+ years experience managing projects with Agile teams
- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 2 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Practiced skills and knowledge of multiple Agile approaches: Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Scaled Agile Framework
- Applied understanding and execution of Agile Scrum ceremonies and processes
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Experience with/knowledge of applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous metrics, servant leadership, ceremony facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency techniques)
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
- Previous experience using Atlassian Agile toolsets
- Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
- Previous experience as a team leader
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
- Participation in continuous learning activities and communities of practice
- Experience with client-facing or product development Agile teams
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