Job description, responsibilities and duties
- Facilitating the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Identification and removing of impediments
- Maintenance of metrics that could help the Scrum Team see how they are doing
- Supporting the Scrum Team to be accountable for their commitments
- Ensure the transparency and visibility of team’s progress, obstacles and successes to all stakeholders, Product Owner, including the team itself
- Take care the scrum process is well understood and followed
- Supporting of Product Owners
- Teach and Train Product Owner to maximize ROI to meet his goals through Scrum framework
- Protect the Scrum Team from external interference
- Supporting of creativity and self-organization of team members
- Providing coaching and training of Scrum/Agile to the Scrum Team, Product Owner and other departments of company
- Collaborating and communicating cross-functionally
Job requirements
- Minimum 3 year experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations
- Successful delivery as a Scrum Master of at least 2 projects to clients, with duration of at least 8 iterations each
- Experience as a Scrum Master on at least two projects that advanced existing products, as opposed to new products (at least one project that included onshore and offshore team members)
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle
- University education (Bachelor’s degree or higher)
- Language skills: English – advanced
As an advantage:
- Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban
- Certified scrum master/scrum practitioner
- German language
Personal Qualities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong people skills and the ability to lead and influence
- Strong analytical ability