Scrum Master

at Kforce Technology
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