Seeking a Scrum Master that has successfully participated in or led a scrum team for software a product implementation. We will consider Junior Scrum Masters, Analysts or Developers.

Essential Job Functions:
• Build a strong relationship with Product Owner and Technical Lead for a full functional leadership triangle
• Schedule and facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, demo, backlog grooming, demo and retrospective meetings
• Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Resolve conflicts, focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect
• Ability to shield team from outside distractions and interferences
• Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint
• Remove impediments, understand how and when to escalate issues to Leadership
• Ensure accuracy of agile metrics, holding team accountable for timely updates of pointing and status
• Effectively communicate and use metrics to plan, forecast, and communicate status
• Forecasting and aligning project budget with velocity and backlog sizing

Requirements:
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
• Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.

Nice to have:

• Rally software experience.