Scrum Master (SC)

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My client urgently requires a Scrum Master to work on a customer site in South London.

You will manage a scrum team of about 7 people, use Java based and open source. Project focus is around development of systems used by Caseworking teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Strongly serving the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers

- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

- Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self organization

- Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

Essential:

First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)

- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for number of years for software development teams that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)

Experience of working on large programmes having number of cross-functional teams.

Ability to articulate clearly technical challenges and dependencies to the management team.

Good understanding of SAFE principles and techniques.

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