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- Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style
- Coach the development team and help lead and insure the "agile mindset" is fully adopted and understood
- Inculcate core agile values of focus, commitment, respect, openness and courage into the team's ground rules through leading by example
- Assess and coach the team to higher levels of performance, tracking acceleration metrics
- Guide the development team on how to integrate agile ceremonies and values into daily work
- Encourage an environment where open communication and collaborative problem solving can pave the way for faster removal of any impediments and where the impact of mistakes can be minimized through early detection, making them into learning opportunities
- Facilitate the discussion with the team and technical SMEs to identify technical debt risks and develop approaches to remediate
- Manage the deliveries and releases
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
- Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team
- Apply techniques for effective workflow visualization and management (e.g. Kanban or Scrum Boards)
- Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with particular emphasis on timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution
- Facilitate identifying and enacting improvement strategies to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
- Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work- maintaining the momentum of the initiative and upholding a sustainable pace of delivery; track agile metrics to provide statistical proof of momentum and sustainability
- Develop strong partnership with the Product Owner to gain strong understanding of objectives, sustain open dialogue to manage product backlog efficiently
- Influence a wide range of stakeholders (business, compliance, Legal, IT, etc.) to remove impediments and maximize team output
- Support and educate the Product Owner on agile principles and practices to preserve the team from external pressures which may inhibit its productivity
- 5-7+ years of IT experience
- 5+ years of Scrum Master experience in a recent project/initiative within a true agile environment
- Experience coordinating and/or leading large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects, preferably in an agile work environment
- Experience with Jira highly preferred
- Prior Project Management experience
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM) or other Scrum Master certification
- KMP I (Kanban Systems Design) certification
- Less, Safe, Certification
Scrum Master - Ontario, Canada - Tech Tammina
Description
Job Title: Scrum Master
Location Address: Hybrid – Toronto, ON
Contract Duration: 12 months
Typical Day in Role:
As a Scrum Master you will ensure the team enacts the agile principles, values and framework:
Implement and promote use of agile methodology within the team:
Develop and nurture strong partnering relationships with Product Owner/Business Sponsor and stakeholders:
Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:
Nice-To-Have Skills: