Scrum Master

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Company: GTN Technical Staffing
Location: Louisville, KY 40202 (Central Business District area)

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Scrum Master

HIGHLIGHTS
Location: Louisville, KY
Position Type: 11 Month Contract
Hourly / Salary: BOE
Residency Status: US Citizen, Green Card, H1’s
ONSITE ONLY

Job Description:

  • Building the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
  • Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organization.
  • Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
  • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
  • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Requirements:

  • Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least 2 year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  • Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development including performance testing and engineering team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
  • Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
  • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

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