Scrum Master - Georgia IT Inc.
HARTFORD, CT
About the Job
Ref No: 16-00038
Title: IT - Information Technology Manager
Start Date: 01/31/2016
Rate: Market ( ONLY W2)
# of Openings: 1
Position Type:
Locations: HARTFORD, CT
Description:
Title: IT - Information Technology Manager
Start Date: 01/31/2016
Rate: Market ( ONLY W2)
# of Openings: 1
Position Type:
Locations: HARTFORD, CT
Description:
Client: Health Care Company
Contract to Hire
Scrum Master
The Scrum Master will be responsible for leading the agile transformation at the team level and for the successful execution of one or more teams to support the delivery of strategic technology products. They will provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team(s) to encourage adoption of agile principles and practices, avoiding anti-patterns, and will empower the team to become self-directed and self-managing.
The Scrum Master will facilitate execution without coercion, assigning, or dictating work and will remove impediments, or assist the team in doing so, to allow the team to achieve their sprint and/or PI objectives. They will work to establish a trusting and safe team environment where problems can be addressed without blame or judgment with a focus on problem solving, and will foster a "learn by doing " environment. They act as a servant leader, lead by example, and always protect the team.
Scrum Master Competencies
Assertive: Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adopted at the team level. Ability to recognize when team is making decisions that impact overall release train direction and escalate as appropriate.
Attitude of empowerment: Must be able to lead team(s) to self-organization
Attitude of transparency: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and grow to grow trust amongst partners
Collaborative: Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with scrum team members and release train leadership
Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
Enthusiastic: Must be impassioned and high-energy
Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s)
Flexible: Ability to shift to the role or tasks needed for each situational transformation. Ability to get the job done regardless of role definition.
Quick learner: Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the scrum teams
Servant Leader: Must be able to garner respect from the team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
Situational Awareness: Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
Team-oriented: Must be a team player who protects the scrum team
Key Responsibilities:
Contract to Hire
Scrum Master
The Scrum Master will be responsible for leading the agile transformation at the team level and for the successful execution of one or more teams to support the delivery of strategic technology products. They will provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team(s) to encourage adoption of agile principles and practices, avoiding anti-patterns, and will empower the team to become self-directed and self-managing.
The Scrum Master will facilitate execution without coercion, assigning, or dictating work and will remove impediments, or assist the team in doing so, to allow the team to achieve their sprint and/or PI objectives. They will work to establish a trusting and safe team environment where problems can be addressed without blame or judgment with a focus on problem solving, and will foster a "learn by doing " environment. They act as a servant leader, lead by example, and always protect the team.
Scrum Master Competencies
Assertive: Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adopted at the team level. Ability to recognize when team is making decisions that impact overall release train direction and escalate as appropriate.
Attitude of empowerment: Must be able to lead team(s) to self-organization
Attitude of transparency: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and grow to grow trust amongst partners
Collaborative: Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with scrum team members and release train leadership
Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
Enthusiastic: Must be impassioned and high-energy
Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s)
Flexible: Ability to shift to the role or tasks needed for each situational transformation. Ability to get the job done regardless of role definition.
Quick learner: Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the scrum teams
Servant Leader: Must be able to garner respect from the team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
Situational Awareness: Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
Team-oriented: Must be a team player who protects the scrum team
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams within a Release Train/Value Stream
- Establish team level cadence and drive team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.) in alignment with Program level cadences established
- Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
- Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
- Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration
- Remove impediments for the team(s) and escalate as appropriate
- Facilitate management of the scrum team s dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or other scrum teams.
- Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers.
- Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
- Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
- Actively contribute to the company s Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums.
- Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of IT experience
- 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach
- 1+ years of experience working on mixed methodology program (Scrum interfacing with Waterfall from a dependency perspective)
- 1+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects
- Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple distributed scrum teams
- Experience leading agile/scrum adoption at the team level
- Agile / Scrum Industry Certification(s)
- Lean Methodology Certification(s)
- Experience with Rally
- Healthcare experience
- Understanding of other processes and methodologies and ability to speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to the program/enterprise
- Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
- Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
- Participation in industry agile communities of practice
Source : Georgia IT Inc.
