Scrum Master - Agile Methodologies

Job Description :

• 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
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach team members on Agile principles and best practices to foster continuous improvement.
• Manage all project-related activities in JIRA that meets Agile Project governance.
• Maintain and manage projects, boards, workflows, dashboards, permissions on JIRA.
• Knowledge of advanced JIRA filters and reporting for project and program level monitoring.
• Developing, managing, facilitating, and delivering training on Jira and related agile platforms to Agile teams and stakeholders to continuously advance workflow sophistication, efficiencies, and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with Confluence to document processes and create pages to support the Jira and agile workflows.
• Work with Product Managers and Technical Managers to enable Planning, Prioritization as well as Decision Making on high-value features and enhancements.
• Work with both Internal and External stakeholders actively to resolve impediments or address risk / concerns raised by the Development teams.
• 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, restrospection) and ensure correct adoption
• Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts
• Ensure ALM tool (either client or Wipro) is updated on a daily basis
• Update key Scrum metrics into Wipro internal tool on a Sprint-by-Sprint basis
• 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 restrospection actions
• Participate in community of practice initiatives
• Provide inputs to the Line manager for internal quality forums (QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.)

(ref : hirist.tech)