Scrum Master
Apply NowCompany: RICEFW Technologies, Inc.
Location: Minneapolis, MN 55407
Description:
Job Posting Title: Scrum Master
Description: The Scrum Master leads and influences the Team according to their needs and to follow Scrum. The ScrumMaster has experience with the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto and coaches others on the subtleties.
They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery, planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise.
They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a partner in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.
Provides consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap, release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
Facilitate Scrum master meetings for assigned product area with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos. Facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, product teams, and/or operational teams. Consult with the Product Owner to validate priorities
Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible. Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes.
Help the team monitor progress daily. Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally. Maintain relevant metrics to show progress.
Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives
Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs.
Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence. Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Product Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))
Education
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or equivalent work experience
Preferred:
Certified Scrum Master or similar certification
2-4 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business led initiatives
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
High level of organization and attention to detail
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
Strong communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
Experience in leading agile teams in SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban contexts
Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities
Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification, tracking, follow-up, escalation, and contingency planning on risks, issues
Understand multiple software development processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel
No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises product teams with cross-functional team members.
Job Posting Start Date: 02/12/2024
Job Posting End Date: 08/30/2024
Supervisory org: Digital Eng Acquisition
Site: Remote-USA
Location: Remote-USA
Required Skills : Scrum Master
Additional Skills : Agile Coach
Description: The Scrum Master leads and influences the Team according to their needs and to follow Scrum. The ScrumMaster has experience with the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto and coaches others on the subtleties.
They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery, planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise.
They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a partner in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.
Provides consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap, release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
Facilitate Scrum master meetings for assigned product area with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos. Facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, product teams, and/or operational teams. Consult with the Product Owner to validate priorities
Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible. Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes.
Help the team monitor progress daily. Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally. Maintain relevant metrics to show progress.
Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives
Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs.
Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence. Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Product Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))
Education
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or equivalent work experience
Preferred:
Certified Scrum Master or similar certification
2-4 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business led initiatives
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
High level of organization and attention to detail
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
Strong communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
Experience in leading agile teams in SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban contexts
Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities
Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification, tracking, follow-up, escalation, and contingency planning on risks, issues
Understand multiple software development processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel
No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises product teams with cross-functional team members.
Job Posting Start Date: 02/12/2024
Job Posting End Date: 08/30/2024
Supervisory org: Digital Eng Acquisition
Site: Remote-USA
Location: Remote-USA
Required Skills : Scrum Master
Additional Skills : Agile Coach