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Description
The Role
The Requirements
The Role
- Function as team leader responsible for understanding the big development picture and ensuring that the team is following the WTW planning and Scrum process.
- Facilitate and lead all scrum meetings (Planning, daily scrum, and refinement). Shielding the team from interruptions.
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and guidelines.
- Responsible for leading teams in Quarterly planning.
- Helps resolves team impediments.
- Responsible for leading a team in determining milestone timelines.
- Responsible for negotiating and communicating timelines, status, and risks to leadership.
- Report on team status weekly.
- Foster strong and cohesive teams. Foster trust and collaboration across all team members to work as one unit. Assist teams resolving destructive conflict.
- Naturally able to share lessons learned and best practices with others, build relationships with stakeholders and broker relationships at all levels.
- Work with management and teams to strengthen our agile culture as well as work with teams and individuals to inspire the goals of self-determination, entrepreneurship, and customer-centered thinking.
- Assist teams and leaders in executing agile practices in a way that leads to continuous improvement.
The Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master focused on software development.
- Agile Methodology experience.
- Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices as well as other methodologies that will allow you to coach the team on effective techniques.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
- Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
- History of delivering strong results in large scale/complex software development projects.
- Experience working with distributed software development products and teams.
- Demonstrated Ability to lead cross functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals, including project metrics and dashboards.
- Direct management of projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics.
- Strong ability to identify risks, issues, and dependencies early.
- Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches, and communication of risks.
- Fully committed to transparency in all situations.
- Highly organized with excellent multi-tasking skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Analytical thinker with creative problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Preference for Agile certifications (Scrum Master or Product Owner).
- Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources in several functional areas.
- Adeptness at learning modern technology and tools.
- BS/BA degree or relevant experience.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework is a plus.
Description
The Role
The Requirements
The Role
- Function as team leader responsible for understanding the big development picture and ensuring that the team is following the WTW planning and Scrum process.
- Facilitate and lead all scrum meetings (Planning, daily scrum, and refinement). Shielding the team from interruptions.
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and guidelines.
- Responsible for leading teams in Quarterly planning.
- Helps resolves team impediments.
- Responsible for leading a team in determining milestone timelines.
- Responsible for negotiating and communicating timelines, status, and risks to leadership.
- Report on team status weekly.
- Foster strong and cohesive teams. Foster trust and collaboration across all team members to work as one unit. Assist teams resolving destructive conflict.
- Naturally able to share lessons learned and best practices with others, build relationships with stakeholders and broker relationships at all levels.
- Work with management and teams to strengthen our agile culture as well as work with teams and individuals to inspire the goals of self-determination, entrepreneurship, and customer-centered thinking.
- Assist teams and leaders in executing agile practices in a way that leads to continuous improvement.
The Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master focused on software development.
- Agile Methodology experience.
- Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices as well as other methodologies that will allow you to coach the team on effective techniques.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
- Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
- History of delivering strong results in large scale/complex software development projects.
- Experience working with distributed software development products and teams.
- Demonstrated Ability to lead cross functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals, including project metrics and dashboards.
- Direct management of projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics.
- Strong ability to identify risks, issues, and dependencies early.
- Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches, and communication of risks.
- Fully committed to transparency in all situations.
- Highly organized with excellent multi-tasking skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Analytical thinker with creative problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Preference for Agile certifications (Scrum Master or Product Owner).
- Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources in several functional areas.
- Adeptness at learning modern technology and tools.
- BS/BA degree or relevant experience.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework is a plus.