Scrum Master
Location
South Africa
Posted
31 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Mid Level
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Job Description
Scrum Master
Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Role Description The Scrum Master is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for guiding and coaching teams in the use of Scrum / Agile practices. The primary responsibility of this role is to boost the effectiveness of teams by managing key projects, championing cross team alignment, and delivering success while operationalizing underlying processes to make development teams function effectively. - Fosters a self-organizing and empowered environment that enables teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. - Facilitates and leads Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. - Ensures that teams adhere to the Scrum framework, follows agile best practices, and utilizes appropriate tools and metrics to track progress, identifies bottlenecks, and drives continuous improvement. - Fosters effective communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, product owners, and stakeholders. - Acts as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of the project goals, priorities, and timelines. - Proactively addresses any conflicts or challenges that may hinder team performance and delivery. - Collaboratively identifies and synchronizes project interdependencies across multiple teams, facilitating effective resource allocation across the programs. - Drives the continuous improvement of agile processes, methodologies, and tools across the organization, identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimize efficiency, productivity, and quality of deliverables. - Encourages innovation to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth. - Ensures the program benefits remain viable throughout the program, communicating status and date changes and actively managing dependencies. - Builds strong relationships with key stakeholders and manages expectations regarding project scope, timelines, and deliverables. - Collaborates closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items and ensures alignment with business goals. - Provides regular project status updates and communicates any risks or impediments that may impact project success. Qualifications - Ability to recognize the importance of working through others within the team, engaging and empowering others to use their capabilities, thereby fostering trust and high energy to succeed. - Drive and energy to get the job done. - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. - Assertive with the ability to come up with solutions to critical situations. - Ability to make timely decisions and take calculated risks. - Seasoned knowledge of other Agile approaches such as XP, Kanban, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP). - Seasoned knowledge of the technologies used by the team. - Ability to coordinate large teams with cross-functional dependencies. - Proactive and organized with the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment providing consistent, high-quality output. - Ability to facilitate discussions to allow the team to consider alternative solutions or approaches and manage disagreements collaboratively. - Ability to stimulate and relish change, adapt quickly, and see change as an opportunity. Requirements - Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Project Management or related field. - Relevant certifications such as SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master preferred. - Other related certifications and/or training (for example - SAFe DeVos, Implementing SAFe, etc.). - Seasoned Scrum Master experience in an ICT environment, managing software projects and working with software development teams. - Seasoned experience in Scrum Management. - Seasoned experience of Agile concepts and principles. - Seasoned experience as a coach and mentor in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.). - Seasoned experience with contemporary software development methodologies. - Seasoned experience with widely successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
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