What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at BizTek People, Inc. | APA International Placement Consultants?
Overview
- Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit
with a sustainable cadence
- Responsible for ensuring the teams process evolves within organizational guidelines and
standards of practice
- Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant
leadership and mentoring
- Facilitate project team meetings, project road-mapping sessions, gather feedback by
presenting to all levels of leadership
- Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and
processes
- Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and
management
- Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or
escalation
- Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other
team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
- Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and
sprint reviews
- Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
- Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see
how they are doing.
