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Vacancy Details

Vacancy Name:
Scrum Master
 
Location:
Gauteng
Vacancy Type:
Contract
 
Suburb And City:
Johannesburg CBD
Expected Starting Date :
2016/11/01
 
Specific Requirements :
Certified Scrum Master
 

Job Specification

Job Name:
Scrum Master
Reports to:
Practice Lead : Project Management
Sector:
IT & Telecommunications
Minimum Education:
    •First level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
Personal Skills and Attributes:
PERSONAL SKILLS
•Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
•Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well with teams
•Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
•Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
•Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
•Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy
•Continual improvement – Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
•Conflict resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
•Attitude of empowerment – Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
•Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
•Excellent communication and mentoring skills

TECHNICAL SKILL
•Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
•Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
•Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
•Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
•Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
•Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
•Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
Required Experience:
•Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
•Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
•Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
•Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
•Experience applying a wide variety of 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)
•Previous experience as a team lead
Role Overview:
The successful individual, comfortable in engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization recognizes the art of facilitation as one of the key skills of a Scrum Master and passionately lives the belief that technology not just enables business, but will increasingly become one of the key drivers of successful 21st century businesses .
Prioritization of requirements, the Scrum master will be the facilitator for a product development team that uses scrum/agile as the development methodology. The scrum master will lead a team that ensures self-organisation and the ability to make changes quickly. The role will ensure that agile principles and concept are adhered to ensure effective preparation of the product backlog, sprint backlog and burn down charts. Significant experience in iterative methodologies could well be the deal clincher.
Responsibilities:
•Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
•Guiding the team on how to get the most of out of self-organization
•Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
•Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
•Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
•Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
•Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
•Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
•Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
•Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
•Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
•Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers
Required Experience:
•Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
•Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
•Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
•Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
•Experience applying a wide variety of 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)
•Previous experience as a team lead
Minimum Experience:
1-3 years (Junior)
 
 
 

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