Project Manager And Scrum Master

Position Project Manager with Scrum Master

Experience –7+ years of IT experience, with minimum 2 years of scrum master experience on projects executed using Agile Scrum methodology

Job Description:

The roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Production Issue Resolution: Collaborate with development and production support managers to ensure timely resolution of production issues.
• Project Management: Manage T&M and fixed-time projects, including scrum boards, daily scrum meetings, customer interactions, and stakeholder management.
• Conflict and Change Management: Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to maintain high-performance operations across multiple projects. Identify scope changes, initiate CM process and CRs
• Project Objectives and Status Reporting: Develop a deep understanding of project objectives through engagement with project participants and meetings. Perform status reporting of initiatives and releases.
• Documentation and Artifacts: Maintain expertise in project management documentation and artifacts.
• Team Leadership and Improvement: Lead team efforts in relentless improvement, defining and implementing improvement stories to increase velocity and quality.
• Stakeholder Management: Present high-level project readouts to senior management and at times to customer.
• Resource and Financial Management: Manage resources, budgets, and financial aspects of projects.
• Team Development and Mentoring: Assist in team development, hold teams accountable for commitments, remove roadblocks, and mentor team members.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Certified Project Manager (PMP) or Scrum Master (CSM).
• Should have handled a team of at least 4-5 team members.
• A strong team player with the ability to understand team issues and to encourage and enforce strong working ethics within the team.
• The ability to lead and motivate the team to fully adopt processes
• The ability to build strong and effective working relationships with all key contributors to the project – the development team (including QA), the PO and/or BA and the management stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written) – working with team to ensure that everyone is aware of progress and key issues.
• Strong prioritization skills – should be able to determine priorities in tasks, coordination and communication
• Be supportive and pro-active – ensure that all impediments to progress are dealt with quickly and effectively.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Strongly driven with a desire to continuously improve development processes to increase team effectiveness and contribution.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing