Scrum Master I

Partner with up to two business and technology teams to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts; delivering the business vision.

Outcomes:

1. Team coordination: Ensure teams operate to agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice
2. Dependency coordination: Support teams to ensure smooth collaboration among extended team members wherever required and enable clear visualisation of dependency blockers
3. Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams maintain their team data and collateral; keeping them relevant over time to changing needs of the business
4. Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices
5. Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.
6. Work with the Agile coach to ensure alignment to Agile values and principles.

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Percent of increase in Agile maturity as defined by the maturity tools i. e. adoption of Agile practices and participation within the team
2. Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program
3. Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability

Outputs Expected:

Change Agent:

1. Facilitate team events to drive Agile practices (e. g. daily stand up
   sprint planning
   sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives).
2. Conduct regular check- ins with all team members to provide performance feedback and offer coaching and mentoring
3. Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e. g. Velocity
   Burndown
   CFD s
   cycle time
   etc)
4. Coach the team
   the product owner and business stakeholders on Agile practices and processes (e. g. methodology
   acceptance criteria
   user stories
   estimation
   etc. )
5. Provide training for the team on Agile concepts
   various practices and frameworks
   as required
6. Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e. g. Mural
   Miro
   MS Teams
   Zoom
   etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency

Skill Examples:

1. Understand the business requirements and interact with SMEs at various stages of development
2. Understand the customers technology landscape and requirements
3. Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan
4. Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects
5. Promote continuous knowledge management
6. The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials
7. Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress
8. Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project
9. The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances
10. A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies
11. Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.

Knowledge Examples:

• Experience applying a variety of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Retrospective formats handling bugs Backlog Prioritization collaboration team building techniques etc. )
  1. Passion for Agile software development.
  2. Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
  3. Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
  4. Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
  5. Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
  6. Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
  7. Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.
  
  

  SM Responsibilities (high level): True leader who serves Protects the team from external distractions that do not align with prioritized or planned work Coaches the team s adoption of Agile practices and improvements Helps team with self-organization and autonomy Collects metrics to help teams improve; creates appropriate reporting / dashboards for alignment (burndown charts, velocity, etc. ) Expedites removal of impediments Facilitates scrum ceremonies and other key meetings to foster appropriate level of collaboration Partners with Engineering Managers, Product Managers/Owners to protect the team from outside distractions and priorities Participates in Scrum of Scrum meetings for cross-team coordination Fosters communication, creates channel for the team as well as help translate lingo Coordinates and establishes relationships with other Scrum Masters, third parties, shared resources, and other members of the organization Tools Administrator for Jira project Additional responsibility: Manages, coordinates release activities (including change management) for the product team. Product Team Assignment - SM Support 100%: SM to support the AIM (Advance Inventory Management) team. This project involves application development for our AIM Mobile app that runs on the TC57x scan devices in our stores. Objectives: Build and deploy mobile apps to replace critical RF Scanner functions. Optimize Cycle Count app to reduce unnecessary counting in stores. Automate Truck Detail Scan. Eliminate manual processes (inventory adjustments, emails, printed reports). Cycle Count outlier inventory adjustments.