What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Scrum Master position at WIVERSE?
Sr. Scrum Master
Location : 13693 S 200 W, Draper, Utah 84020
Hybrid- 2 days in the office
Pay rate : W2 Hourly
Contract : 1 Year
Target Years of Exp : - 5
Top 5 Must Haves :
1. Able to put ego to the side and the "desire to control" the team by teaching and mentoring increasing levels of self-organizing behavior.
2. Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
3. Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous, optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
4. Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external.
5. Works with team to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of "ready", and definition of "done."
Job Description :
The Senior Scrum Master?has primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean / Agile mindset, adopting, and continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. As a servant-leader, the Senior Scrum Master plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and working with other Lean / Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale.
Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions :
- Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
- Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous, optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
- Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt.
- Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication.
- Encourage an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset.
- Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization.
- Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team's context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.
- Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team.
- Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of "Ready" in preparation for the next quarter and upcoming sprints.
- Work with the team and Product Owner / Managers to maintain a healthy backlog and rolling short and mid-term planning for upcoming releases.
- Able to put ego to the side and the "desire to control" the team by teaching and mentoring increasing levels of self-organizing behavior.
- Engage the organization to remove impediments to the team's ability to perform by working closely with the team and stakeholders, including product owners / managers, leadership, and other teams.
- Support communication of delivery progress and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders; coach product owners / managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external.
- Works with team to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of "ready", and definition of "done."
- Encourages brainstorming, creative thinking, open minds, equal voice, and perspective sharing. Encourages the team to be confident and courageous, thinking outside the box.
- Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement. Able to subtly observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and growth opportunities of individual team members and her / himself, and invite team members into coaching conversations to inspire learning and growth.
- Create a fun, open, and learning environment, experimenting with various methods to improve and grow.
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