Senior Scrum Master is one of the central roles to facilitate the project delivery. The Senior Scrum Master will directly manage 1-3 teams to deliver his product.
Responsibilites:
Understand and apply Agile values and principles
Help the teams understand and apply: Scaled Agile roles, events, artifacts, and the underlying principles/values, Value-driven priority, self-organization, empirical process improvement
Help stakeholders understand planning in complex environments and points of interaction to influence decisions and priorities
Facilitate teams’ events as needed: make clear the Purpose and Outcomes, design the meeting flow to support desired outcomes, facilitate full participation
Actively represent the teams, ensuring that effective relationships are built and maintained with the business (connected stakeholders), and teams morale is high
Teach, Mentor, and Coach (context tailored solution): Help people get better at their work, deliver more value, resolve a conflict, or problem Develop other SMs
Do agile induction to new team members
Ensure the focus of the teams on the agreed Product Vision
Ensure just in time backlog readiness
Help teams apply agile sizing. Inspect and adapt for more accurate sizing that helps improve predictability
Helping in the evolution of the Product Roadmap: detailed on the short term, key direction on the medium-term, and options on the long term
Aware of costs, timescales. Inspect and adapt team capacity and allocation.
Provide forecast on team availability for both client as well as internal processes as needed.
Work with POs and SMs to harmonise the planning of connected products
Ensure management of external dependencies in planning.
Make visible the progress of the release of the product
Identify, assess, and manage risks, impediments, and dependencies (including dependencies across systems and platforms) which might impact the success of product delivery.
Follow up with the appropriate stakeholders on risks and dependencies with external teams
Coordinate the team(s) towards successful product delivery and client satisfaction.
Ensure that the delivery meets the client’s quality expectations.
Drive the creation and implementation of the Common Definition of Done and Common Definition of Ready and update when needed
Contribute to the decisions around shaping team structure for optimising delivery
Act as a driver for changes at multiple teams' level by encouraging and leading change initiatives towards the continuous improvement of process and delivery - Take proactive actions in assessing Customer satisfaction and work together with the account leadership team in addressing customer concerns
Minimum 8-10 years of work experience out of which Minimum 5 years of Scrum Master/ Agile Coach/ RTE / Project Management experience
Minimum 5 years of work experience as a Scrum Master in Scaled Agile Environment
Minimum 5 years work experience in using Azure DevOps
Tool knowledge of Jira, Wiki, Confluence
Advanced SAFe Certification Good to have
Good to have minimum 3 of: Scrum Master (CSM/PSM), ICP-ACC, SAFE RTE, SAFE SPC, Scaled Agilist, PMI-PMP Certifications
Experience in agile reporting and metrics
Plus, very good English communication
Education
B.E, B.Tech, M.C.A
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