About the job Scrum Master
EMPLOYMENT TYPE:
6 months contract with possibility to start in April
LOCATION:
Cape Town
JOB OVERVIEW:
What will you do:
Facilitate daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and the iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution Presents high level project readouts for senior management
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope Manage other special projects as assigned
Other duties as needed
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Minimum 5 years of project management/scrum experience
2 years' experience leading sprints
**Please note: If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.