It Scrum Master - Consumer Applications

• Delivery of business value through utilization of Scrum framework:

o Facilitate medium to high complexity agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with Scrum framework.
o Coordinate and lead monthly release management activities.
o Manage risk to delivery by identifying and removing impediments and external interruptions that distract the team from delivering highest business value.
o Create and/or maintain product documentation and artifacts to support delivery, collaboration, and governance.
o Remain up to date with emerging technologies, mandatory software updates, understanding existing systems, data, and processes.

• Enable the Agile team’s efficacy:

o Facilitate and support all Scrum events, including but not limited to Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
o Challenge the team to continuously improve through intentional, data-driven inspection and adaption (retrospectives).
o Examine and drive team performance leveraging metrics such as capacity, burn down, velocity, etc., and ensure accurate and timely feedback to the team and transparency to Product Owner and executive stakeholders.
o Support and empower the Consumer Applications delivery teams and/or Product Owners to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
o Guide the team towards self-organization and cross-functionality; encourage, support, and enable the team to reach their full potential and abilities.
o For Scrum Masters with Direct Reports: Supervise work and performance. Lead, coach, and ensure performance growth and development.
o Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams to maintain their team

• Support the Product Owner’s partnership with other teams and stakeholders:

o Collaborate with the Product Owner to define and prioritize the product backlog, as well as ensure that it is visible, transparent, and understood by the development team.
o Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, QA engineers, and stakeholders, to ensure successful delivery of product features.
o Negotiate with external stakeholders, other product teams, partner resources to facilitate the removal of impediments.
o Support the Product Owner with meetings, building connections, building innovative solutions that contribute towards stakeholder business objectives.

• Provide organizational coaching and best practice sharing on agile business practice/agile program management:

o Evangelize Scrum best practices and coach the organization on the use of Scrum framework to plan, manage, and deliver high-quality solutions.
o Work with other Scrum master’s to ensure consistency in Agile practices across multiple teams.
o Identify and act on opportunities for continuous improvement to improve agile maturity.