Scrum Master

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The following culture and behaviours are expected of a Scrum Master:

* Servant Leader - Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done

* Communicative and social - Must be able to communicate well with teams

* Facilitative - Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team

* Assertive - Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.

* Situationally Aware - Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management

* Enthusiastic - Must be high-energy and have charisma

* Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team

* Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches

* Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization

* Attitude of transparency - Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust

The following skills and experience are required:

* 2-3 years' work experience of working with Scrum and Kanban

* 1-2 years' experience of leading scrum teams

* Good knowledge of Agile Technical practices; TDD, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Pair Programming, etc

* Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development and incremental delivery

* Demonstrated ability to write high quality user stories and to drive to a satisfactory MVP

* Demonstrable experience of backlog prioritisation

* Some experience of Java Virtual Machine based environment: Java

* Some front End experience: JavaScript, CSS 3, HTML 5 - common libraries like React, Node etc

* Excellent communication skills, good verbal and written communication

Please contact Oliver Hurved at or on 0161 924 3659