Scrum Master
Published | May 23, 2022 |
Location | Minneapolis, MN |
Category | Default |
Job Type | Contractor |
Description
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Scrum Master in Minneapolis, MN.
Major Responsibilities:
- Scrum Master will embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Technology organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile and lean principles
- Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues: resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability
- Utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes traditional project management which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times
- Understand the various agile frameworks, events, and artifacts (i.e., scrum, Kanban), where they are fit for purpose and how to implement/apply with new and existing teams
- Manage and facilitate team ceremonies including quarterly product planning, product owner syncs, backlog grooming, estimating, and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives
- Facilitate and coach to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs)
- As a Scrum Master, you coach teams and leaders in agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities, and frameworks
- Foster a continuous improvement environment in order to build high-performing, agile teams
- Track and report on metrics for teams to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of the teams
- Guide product management teams in their role, defining MVP's, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps and release plans, story mapping, writing stories and backlog prioritization and management