Job title : Scrum Master
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : November 17, 2024
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Scrum Master’s primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting selforganizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by facilitating, teaching, and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile values and principles through practices.
- Facilitate the team coordinating with other teams in the programme.
- Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team.
- Facilitate stakeholders and team engagement to ensure total alignment on work required.
- Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
- Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.
- Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery. Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
- Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management. Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or Management Information Systems
- Foundational Agile certifications required: Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) OR Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
- Relevant work experience: Must have 1-3 years as a scrum master
- Additional Qualifications/Experience (Preferred, not a Requirement):
- Knowledge of agile way of working and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. so that they can explain and motivate their team if needed.
- Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
- Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
- Ability to run and facilitate core events and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
- JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board
- Role specific certifications advantageous: Industry standard certification, i.e. CSM or PSM
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