Sprint Planning:Facilitate the planning of the upcoming sprint by ensuring the team understands the sprint goal, backlog items, and tasks.
Daily Stand-ups (Daily Scrum):Ensure these meetings are time-boxed and focused, helping the team discuss progress, blockers, and plans.
Sprint Review:Facilitate the review of completed work with stakeholders, ensuring the team showcases their deliverables and gathers feedback.
Sprint Retrospective:Facilitate a reflection on the sprint process to identify areas for improvement and encourage team self-reflection.
2.Team Coaching and Support
Foster a self-organizing team:Guide the team in making decisions and solving problems independently while offering support when necessary.
Remove impediments:Identify and help remove blockers that prevent the team from meeting their sprint goals or delivering value.
Promote collaboration:Encourage open communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the team and with stakeholders.
3.Scrum Process Implementation & Adherence
Ensure Scrum practices are followed:Act as a guardian of Scrum principles and practices, ensuring the team adheres to the framework.
Adapt Scrum to fit the team's needs:While adhering to Scrum principles, adapt practices to suit the team's unique circumstances or challenges.
4.Stakeholder and Product Owner Support
Support the Product Owner:Help the Product Owner manage the product backlog, ensuring it is well-defined, prioritized, and ready for Sprint Planning.
Facilitate stakeholder communication:Ensure transparency between the development team and stakeholders, promoting a shared understanding of goals, progress, and issues.
5.Promoting Continuous Improvement
Facilitate Retrospectives:Continuously improve the team’s processes by leading retrospectives, encouraging the team to reflect and learn from their experiences.
Track and improve team performance:Use Agile metrics (like velocity, burn-down charts, etc.) to assess team performance and identify areas for improvement.
6.Conflict Resolution and Team Dynamics
Mediation and conflict resolution:Act as a mediator in conflicts between team members or stakeholders, helping resolve issues and improving team dynamics.
Build team morale and motivation:Help build a culture of trust, respect, and continuous learning within the team.
Requirements
Agile/Scrum Experience:Typically 3-5 years of experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment, including at least 1-2 years as a Scrum Master. Experience working with cross-functional teams is highly beneficial.
Project/Team Management Experience:Experience in managing or leading teams, even if in a non-Scrum context, can be valuable for understanding dynamics, planning, and execution.
Experience with Scrum Tools:Proficiency in tools like Jira, Trello, or Azure DevOps, which are commonly used to manage Scrum backlogs, sprints, and reporting
