Scrum Master/ Project Manager with extensive experience in project management, Agile
Quest Global
- Location
- Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- Agile
- communication skills
- extreme programming
- Kanban
- product management
- project management
- TDD
- user stories
About the role
Website:
questglobal.com
Job details:
Job Requirements
Main duties
- Support our mission to continuously improve by leading empirical process control – transparency, inspection, and adaptation
- Work with teams, Stakeholders, other Scrum Masters and leaders to foster a culture that supports respect, focus, courage, openness, and commitment
- Define and lead an agile vision and strategy that improves as our company advances in our agile understanding.
- Serve the organisation and product management to better achieve their goals by applying empirical process control.
Service To Team
- Coach the team in self-management and cross-functionality
- Coach and mentor other employees and business leaders in supporting team self-organisation
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress
- Coach and mentor the team in other squads and business activities that enhances self-organisation
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Help the team establish practices that enhance quality, lowers technical debt and increases product value
Service to Product Owners
- Ensure the goals, scope and product domain are understood by everyone on the team
- Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
- Help the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog Items
- Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment
- Guide the product owner on arranging their Product Backlog to maximise value
- Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
- Coach the Product Owner on understanding and practicing agility
- Help the Scrum Team establish a strong focus on the Product Goal, Sprint Goals and the Definition of Done
Service to organisation
- Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption
- Raising awareness of impediments, then facilitate the removal in our mission to continually improve
- Facilitate events as requested
- Leading and coaching the organisation in its Scrum and agile adoption
- Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization
- Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work
- Initiating change through empiricism that fosters a continuous support environment
- Work with other organisation leaders to create an environment the increases productivity, product value and quality by facilitating the removal of impediments
- Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of Scrum throughout the organisation
- Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams
Required Skills
- Management skills, with a servant leadership management style
- Strong Training, Mentoring and Coaching skills
- Strong facilitation skills to opening hard conversations, guiding thorough inspection and exploring options to change
- Demonstrate skills by having been in a Scrum Master role
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of working in the Software Development Industry (both good and bad) so you can relate to people.
- Good knowledge of Lean Software Development, Kanban, eXtreme Programming.
- Excellent communication skills
Preferred Skills
- Skills in agile practices for Product Management
- Good business acumen skills to engage business leaders
- Experience in applying a wide variety of well-known patterns and techniques, e.g. TDD, SOLID, CI/CD, INVEST, User Stories, agile estimation
- Hard conversations skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- Facilitation practices such as Liberating Structures and Visual Facilitation.
Qualifications
- Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
- Coaching credential (ICF)
Performance Goals
- Successful applying transparency, inspection, and adaptation in all Scrum events
- Ensuring the removal of impediments through successful facilitation
- Successfully helping the team deliver at least one retrospective action every sprint that supports continuous improvement
- Ensuring teams and leaders are meeting the quality standards as set in the Definition of Done
Work Experience
- Management skills, with a servant leadership management style
- Strong Project management skill
- Strong Training, Mentoring and Coaching skills
- Strong facilitation skills to opening hard conversations, guiding thorough inspection and exploring options to change
- Demonstrate skills by having been in a Scrum Master role
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of working in the Software Development Industry (both good and bad) so you can relate to people.
- Good knowledge of Lean Software Development, Kanban, eXtreme Programming.
- Excellent communication skills
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