Scrum Master II

As a Scrum Master, you will take ownership of developing scrum teams that deliver exceptional results to achieve business outcomes, irrespective of the challenges the team may encounter. Your team will use an inspect and adapt cycle to continuously improve the delivery of valuable, working software, and they will take complete responsibility for failures without looking for excuses. This team will have a laser focus on the creation of valuable, working software and will utilize a collaborative process that minimizes defects, rework, and time spent on work that will never contribute to delivering value to clients. The team will use sufficient and effective communication to create a shared consciousness of current state, desired state and a shared understanding of quality, value, and time to market goals. This team will set and consistently achieve sprint goals and all members of the team will experience work as both sustainable and challenging.
WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Knowledge of the scrum framework has been acquired through self study. You have an understanding of the scrum framework from actively reading sources on the framework. You can converse on the framework and you have a basic understanding of the components.

• A genuine interest and passion for assessing the human factor within teams and how it impacts the working environment. You look at the human system of a team and seek to understand it and evolve it.

• Exceptional verbal skills demonstrated by the ability to effectively communicate ideas, goals, concepts to a diverse team of people. Exceptional listening skills and the ability to be extremely targeted in your responses.

• Comfortable with conflict and you do not get derailed by conflict. You actively seek ways to apply resolution techniques in those situations. You are always trying to understand the root issue when engaged in these types of discussions.

• You are extremely curious and always wanting to gain more knowledge and understanding, never being satisfied with your current level of knowledge.

• You maintain a high level of intellectual integrity, if something does not make sense you speak up and seek clarification. You are not satisfied with "just because" type answers.

• Experience with public speaking and you possess the ability to read and assess an audience with the intent of adapting your delivery to effectively communicate.

• Over 5 years' work experience in a team-oriented work environment where you learned about team dynamics and the types of issues that can impact and impede team performance.

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Sciences, Computer Science, or a Master's degree in those fields would be a benefit, or a Masters in Psychology.

Expectations:

• Facilitate the pragmatic use of Agile ceremonies that produce the benefits intended by the agile framework and enable the organization to deliver products incrementally using inspect and adapt cycles.

• Actively identify, manage and communicate impediments to expedite resolution.

• Work with scrum master peers for coaching and mentoring on the scrum master role so you can grow in the role.

• Observation of team dynamics, to recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve.

• Drive high performance and collaboration in teams that hold themselves accountable and interact constructively within the team and outside of the team with all members of the organization.

• Own the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that the organization needs in order to engage in continuous planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and quantify the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.

• Coach the team on writing user stories that ultimately enable scrum team focus and prioritization

• Facilitate the identification of delivery focused solutions to address true root cause of issues

• Own full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence. Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.

• Drive scrum team accountability for ensuring the sprint commitment is less than / very close to the average velocity over the last five sprints, maximizing the likelihood of delivery on sprint commitments.

WHO YOU ARE:
Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus minimum 2 years of experience
• 2 - 5 years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional
• Must live within a commutable distance to the Austin TX office and be comfortable coming into the office multiple times a week