Scrum Master

SUMMARY:
Our client in the telecommunications sector requires a Agile Scrum Master on a 8 month contract basis.

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities

Facilitating meetings for the team. This includes:

• Stand-ups
• Sprint Planning
• PI Planning input
• Backlog Grooming
• Holding retrospectives.
• Coaching Scrum Team members
• Mediating through conflicts.
• Helping the team to make decisions.
• Fostering the developer team’s self-organisation.
• Mediating the general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner (more features).
• Consulting team members regarding everything Agile.
• Helping the team to create Scrum Boards
• Giving feedback to the team on what went well and what can be improved on.
• Encouraging the use of Agile Practices within the development team
• Challenge team with to improve Agile way of working 
• Exchanging constantly with other Scrum masters in the organisation.
• Helping define Features
• Helping to write or break down User stories.
• Helping to order Product backlog items.
• Helping with the Release planning.
• Bringing people together who should talk to each other.
• Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly.
• Helping the team to report to management.
• Helping to further the Agile community within the organisation.
• Sharing insights throughout the company.
• Helping the team to get rid of impediments.
• Suggesting new metrics for the team as catalysts for change and improvement
• Reflecting Agile and Scrum values to the team.
• Helping the team to continuously improve their process.
• Reflecting issues to the team through observation from outside of the team.
• Asking open questions to foster trust and improvements.
• Helping the team to keep focus by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the team.
• Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts and backlogs).
• Helping team and product owner to define:
• Definition of done
• Definition of ready
• Maintaining relationships with all stakeholders, including, but not limited to Product Owners, Other Scrum Masters, Customers, Suppliers, Group Legal, Regulatory, Procurement, Human Resources and Group Risk.
  
  

• 5+ years Scrum Master Experience
• Insurance background
• Leadership Skills
• Technically strong

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