Job description
Key Accountabilities:
Role Purpose
- As a trained Scrum Master, you are responsible for facilitating a Scrum team and are accountable for removing impediments of the team to achieve the sprint goals/deliverables.
- You are responsible to ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended.
- A key part of your role is to protect the development team, allow the teams to be self-managed, foster collaboration across teams and keep them focused on thetasks at hand.
- Is accountable for meeting Sprint objectives along with scrum team
- Ensure meeting of sprint commitment
- Own and help resolve impediments of the team
- Help PO adopt Scrum Process properly and ensure PO availability
- Support the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement and all planning ceremonies
- Ensure that DOR, DOD, Acceptance criteria is available and adhered to
- Ensure Moscow adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level
- Accountable for the correct implementation of the Agile Process
- Protect the team from external interference.
- Facilitate technical assistance to the team and enables clear communication amongst the team members
- Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlights impediments
- Provide feedback on the team members performance to the Agile Line manager and Agile Program Leader
- Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup,Grooming, Demo, retrospection) and ensure correct adoption
- Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts
- Analyse key Scrum metrics and take corrective actions
- Create competency improvement and cross-skilling plan for the team (by the start of the project). Review monthly and ensure improvement in competency score. Ensure multiskilling for at least 50%of the team.
- Help team attain stable velocity within 6-8 sprints (allowing for 10% variation either way)
- Train team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum /XP / Kanban)
- Help in adoption of engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, CI,CD, Refactoring
- Record and own the retrospection actions
- Participate in community of practice initiatives
- Provide inputs to the Line manager for internal quality forums(QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.)"