1. Facilitating Scrum Events
- Sprint Planning: Facilitate the planning of the upcoming sprint by ensuring the team understands the sprint goal, backlog items, and tasks.
- Daily Stand-ups (Daily Scrum): Ensure these meetings are time-boxed and focused, helping the team discuss progress, blockers, and plans.
- Sprint Review: Facilitate the review of completed work with stakeholders, ensuring the team showcases their deliverables and gathers feedback.
- Sprint Retrospective: Facilitate a reflection on the sprint process to identify areas for improvement and encourage team self-reflection.
2. Team Coaching and Support
- Foster a self-organizing team: Guide the team in making decisions and solving problems independently while offering support when necessary.
- Remove impediments: Identify and help remove blockers that prevent the team from meeting their sprint goals or delivering value.
- Promote collaboration: Encourage open communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the team and with stakeholders.
3. Scrum Process Implementation & Adherence
- Ensure Scrum practices are followed: Act as a guardian of Scrum principles and practices, ensuring the team adheres to the framework.
- Adapt Scrum to fit the team's needs: While adhering to Scrum principles, adapt practices to suit the team's unique circumstances or challenges.
4. Stakeholder and Product Owner Support
- Support the Product Owner: Help the Product Owner manage the product backlog, ensuring it is well-defined, prioritized, and ready for Sprint Planning.
- Facilitate stakeholder communication: Ensure transparency between the development team and stakeholders, promoting a shared understanding of goals, progress, and issues.
5. Promoting Continuous Improvement
- Facilitate Retrospectives: Continuously improve the team’s processes by leading retrospectives, encouraging the team to reflect and learn from their experiences.
- Track and improve team performance: Use Agile metrics (like velocity, burn-down charts, etc.) to assess team performance and identify areas for improvement.
6. Conflict Resolution and Team Dynamics
- Mediation and conflict resolution: Act as a mediator in conflicts between team members or stakeholders, helping resolve issues and improving team dynamics.
- Build team morale and motivation: Help build a culture of trust, respect, and continuous learning within the team.
Agile/Scrum Experience: Typically 3-5 years of experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment, including at least 1-2 years as a Scrum Master. Experience working with cross-functional teams is highly beneficial.Project/Team Management Experience: Experience in managing or leading teams, even if in a non-Scrum context, can be valuable for understanding dynamics, planning, and execution.Experience with Scrum Tools: Proficiency in tools like Jira, Trello, or Azure DevOps, which are commonly used to manage Scrum backlogs, sprints, and reporting