Scrum Master

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: Long Term Employment on (Contract/W2)

Job Description:

Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning. Break down the requirements into independent programs; Identify dependencies between each program; Prioritize the programs based on the dependencies, business value and criticality enable smooth and phased delivery.

Coaching & Facilitating:

Identify the training programs for the team members; coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, self-organization etc.; explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team.

Process Improvements:

Identify the need to bring in scrum tools or practices to improve productivity and build collaboration; review process to ensure all scrum practices are being followed; Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint; filter the learning for the next sprint; identify best practices and ensure that they are implemented; Document the learning / outcome of retrospection notes.

Client Stakeholder Management:

Jointly with PM, review the project progress with customers; Identify and communicate impediments and work out a way around; Requirements Gathering: Facilitate all interactions that the team has with the Product Owner to gather and prioritize the requirements; Review documented requirements as shared by the Product Owner; review documentation to understand the product, as required; Review the product backlog and release plan to verify priorities and effectiveness; Check the product backlog to ensure all requirements are captured and weekly reviews on the product backlog are conducted; Conduct trainings for the Product Owner on format and need to write user stories, maintaining the product backlog etc.; Understand the environment and dependencies which can impede the team; facilitate the conversations between the product owner and the team to clarify user stories, priorities and ensure that the team is able to determine the duration and design without any interference; Conduct trainings for the team on the estimate tools, techniques and process to be followed; understand the plan to check for feasibility based on the number and priority of features, during sprint planning; Facilitate meetings to ensure efficiency; protect the team from external influences; identify impediments and aid/ guide team in overcoming same.