Scrum Master

General Activities

• Understands and practices Agile;
• Provides leadership in the adoption of Agile practices, culture and values by teams across a portfolio of projects;
• Secures and promotes the Scrum framework, tools and practices;
• Facilitates Scrum events as requested or needed;
• Assists the team during the framing phase of the product development in order to maximize the value creation;
• Acts as the point of contact between the team and the organization to make sure the required skills are staffed allowing efficient product development.

Activities with the Product Owner

• Helps the POto achieve productobjectives using Scrum;
• Helps the PO to keep focused on value creation and customer alignment;
• Helps the PO understand product planning in an empirical environment;
• Ensures thatthe PO knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.

Activities with the Team

• Enables the Team to improve its efficiency and quality of deliverables by following Agile development best practices;
• Motivates the Team and embodies positive and constructive mindset on top of Agile values and culture;
• Facilitates project level obstacle removal and team consensus on solutions;
• Coaches the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality;
• Protects the team from external interruptions;
• Helps the Team to create high-value products;
• Helps to understand the need for clear and concise User Stories;
• BuildsAgile dashboards and coordinates Agile artifacts delivery, including technology and business value deliverables;
• Communicates on development progress;
• Installs a culture of continuous improvement during development;
• Coaches the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

Activities with the Organization

• Leads and coaches the organization in its Agile & Scrum adoption;
• Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;
• Causes change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Skills & Competencies

• Knowledge and understanding oftheAgile Manifesto and Agile methodologies, from a theoretical and a practical standpoint;
• Awareness on technical practices: eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, DevOps;
• Ability to enable the team to continuously increase product value;
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment;
• Proven success working in a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment;
• Enjoys working with people (facilitating and collaborating);
• Attitude of empowerment and team building;
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence is highly appreciated.

Profile

• Good with human relationships and has strong communication skills;
• Knowledge of Kanban, Lean Engineering and Lean Startup are highly appreciated;
• At least 2 years of experience in Agile project using Scrum;
• For large projects, at least 5 years of experience in Agile projects and 2 years as a Scrum Master;
• Fluent in English;
• French language is highly appreciated.