Job Description
1. Expertise in playing Scrum Master role to handle iterative product development in Agile Methodology with hands on experience in efficient anchoring of scrum ceremonies and processes.
2. Experience in managing delivery using Agile Scrum methodology for medium and large-scale enterprise products, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Technical Architects and Business SMEs
3. Experience in Product Development in Web/Mobile technologies with industry standard engineering practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Automated Testing, Unit Testing through Code, Automated Review Gates etc.)
4. Passionate about going into details and understand ground reality from the scrum teams to make effective decisions
5. Experience in managing teams of size > 20
6. Well versed in ALM tools like Jira for Agile Scrum development
7. Excellent team management skills, enabling each team member to improve their competencies and work quality. Has skills to manage conflict resolution in team amicably and holding up the scrum values of Openness, Respect, and courage.
8. Adequate technical exposure to understand modern web/mobile application development along with ability to visualize and understand technology architecture
9. Experience and confidence in client management with good articulation, detailing and negotiation skills.
10. Capable in coordinating client interactions for product requirement grooming and detailing, product development with modern engineering practices, user acceptance testing, rollout and release phases
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Manage one or more scrum teams each of 8-10 resources
2. Scrum Master, Agile Champion
a. Product Backlog Management – Helps the product owner to ensure a healthy product backlog is maintained and user stories are available for future sprints satisfying DoR criteria
b. Product Grooming – With the help of Lead BA decide the Stories to be taken for each grooming session based on the project schedule
c. Identify technical gaps in features during grooming and planning activities, involve Architects as required to solve them
d. Sprint planning – Facilitate the Dev team to identify the tasks and absolute estimates for each story groomed and planned for sprint. Help the team to confirm sprint backlog based on the team velocity and resource availability
e. Daily Scrum meetings – Conduct daily scrum meetings, identify challenges in sprint plan and take appropriate actions
f. Regularly track the progress of Sprint plan, QC Releases etc. with the help of Burn Down charts
g. Sprint Reviews/Demo – Schedule Sprint Demos at conclusion of every sprint, Identify Stories for demo and prepare demo plan with the help of Leads. Track and close comments given during demo.
h. Sprint Retrospection – Promote and ensure open feedbacks from team members on good and bad things happened in Sprint, take and track suggestions to improve
i. Sprint Velocity – Continuously seek ways to improve velocity of the scrum teams and implement those measures
j. Sprint Reports – Generate insightful reports using ALM tools and recommend course corrections to improve agility and efficiency of scrum teams
k. Scope Change Control – While maintaining the Agility, keep close track of scope change creeps and proactively communicate them with PO/stakeholders
3. Be a true servant leader to the team and win the confidence of the team through regular interactions, professional friendliness, courtesy, respect, and knowledge.
4. Analysis Skills – Natural interest to analysis and problem-solving. Should be able to analyze business problems faced by the client and provide solutions.
5. Client Management
a. Build customer confidence through detailing, pro-active nature, business value additions and quality
b. Conduct regular status meetings with stakeholders and communicate threats identified, actions planned, forecasted dates for milestones, dependencies with client teams etc.
c. Negotiate and arrive at consensus on scope changes, change requests etc.
6. Project Metrics Management
a. Prepare and track project schedule based on the defined scope, team size, dependencies etc.
b. By closely monitoring the work progress, challenges involved, identify the threats or delays in project schedule and inform the stakeholders on the impacts with data points to substantiate
c. Prepare invoice plans considering the revenue and cost of the project. Complete ownership of managing the project commercials. Ensure that the margins defined in project plan is met through proper planning and tracking
d. Prepare timesheets for TnM projects and ensure timely invoicing from clients
e. Ensure the quality of every deliverable by coordinating Reviews, Testing etc. with respective teams
7. Excellent communication skills – written and verbal. Articulate points with clarity and support of data
