Your Role in a Nutshell:
As a Scrum Master, you will play a vital role in fostering Agile practices within our organisation. Your responsibilities include facilitating Agile ceremonies, promoting self- organisation, and supporting the Product Owner. You will drive continuous improvement, encourage innovation, and serve as a point of contact for Agile-related inquiries. Your role is pivotal in maintaining a clear focus on Agile principles and enhancing collaboration within the team and across stakeholders.
What keeps you busy during a day:
Responsible for the Agile Artifacts: Facilitate team members in Planning, Refinement, Reviews, and Retrospectives. Assist the team in staying focused and maintaining scrum tools.
Definition of Done and Definition of Ready: Help the team and product owner establish suitable Definitions of Done and Ready.
Develop and Nurture Group Dynamics: Coach the team, mediate conflicts, facilitate decision-making, and promote self-organization. Mediate conflicts of goals between the development team, engineering manager, product owner, other teams, and management.
Facilitate Company Events: Organize project/program events such as retrospectives, refinements, and discoveries. Coach junior Agile Coordinators for growth.
KPIs and OKRs: Assist teams, including Agile teams, in creating their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Monitor the progress of Agile team KPIs and OKRs.
Serving as a Mirror to the Team: Reflect Modern Agile and Scrum values to the team, remind them of arrangements, and facilitate continuous process improvement.
Provide Support to Product Owner: Collaborate with the Product Owner on user stories, product visions, backlog prioritization, and release planning. Coach the Product Owner on Impact Mapping and Story Mapping.
Continuous Learning: Stay updated on Agile practices, attend conferences, and exchange knowledge with other Agile Coordinators in the organization.
Consulting and Coaching: Offer guidance to team members and the organization on Agile practices and Agile Engineering Practices.
Feedback and Innovation: Provide feedback to the team, encourage the use of Agile Management Innovations, and challenge the team with Agile practices like FedEx-Days.
Knowledge Sharing: Participate in organisational events and share insights through blogging, internal conferences, and other channels.
Maintain the Big Picture: Facilitate communication among stakeholders, help the team report to management, and promote the Agile community within the organization.
Contact Person: Act as a point of contact for anyone in the team or company with Agile-related questions.
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