High Priority Position : Certified Scrum Master at NC || Hybrid from Day One || Need Locals
Babu S
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This is BABU, BDM FROM PANTAR SOLUTIONS INC, we are an Information Technology and Business Consulting firm specializing in Project-based Solutions and Professional Staffing Services. Please have a look at below position which is with our Client and let me know your interest ASAP. I would really appreciate if you could send me your MOST RECENT UPDATED RESUME:
Title: Certified Scrum MasterWork Location: Charlotte, NC ( **This position will follow a hybrid model. Minimum of two days in the office per week) | Need Locals
Duration: Till 12/31/23 with potential extensions
Need 10+ yrs of IT Exp.
Top 3 Skills:
1. 8+ years of experience with software development teams – understanding of SDLC
2. Demonstrate clearly how they manage dependencies across teams and ensure commitments are met
3. Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on multiple large scale, technically complex projects.
Job Description:
The Work Itself
- Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
- Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.). Work with the teams to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs.
- Escalate to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for the team(s). Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.
- Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers. Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams.
- Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams.
- Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
- Use historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
- Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
- Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.
- Identify and remove technical and/or organizational challenges standing in the way of allowing your team to reach its full potential
Responsibilities:
o Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
o Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
o Facilitates Agile ceremonies for 1-2 teams.
o Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments o Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements.
o Assist with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization.
o Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization
o Maintains risk register and escalates where needed
o Utilizes standardized tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs.
o Continuously monitors the actual cost of a project versus the budget. o Reviews expenditures and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes. o Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
o Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts. o Utilizes the team ?definition of done? to guide the team during their sprint commitments. o Uses collaborative engagement techniques.
o Fosters self-accountability. o Escalates where needed. o Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
o Looks for opportunities to teach and mentor the team.
o Guides the team by providing meaningful feedback. o Participates in setting best practices. o Effectively facilitates retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team.
o Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction. o Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
o Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.
The Skills You Bring
- Minimum of 8+ years of ScrumMaster experience
- 5+ years of information technology experience
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, ACP)
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience
- Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Data-driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.
- Controls a program level view and status and uses the information to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time.
- Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.
- Highly adaptable to changing environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
- Situational awareness of when to listen and when to be assertive.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Ability to keep team engaged and on task.
PLEASE NOTE:
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