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Form of workThe Company connects people and businesses around the globe by providing fast, reliable and convenient ways to move money. Their 160-year history and more than 500,000 Agent locations in more than 200 countries and territories strengthen our commitment to offering our services in every corner of the globe.
Duration: 11 months likely to extend
Company: Fortune 100
Job Description:
This person will have overall responsibility for engaging the team in the implementation of the Agile Scrum process. Their role is as facilitator, instigator, and shepherd of the Agile Scrum Process. They will facilitate team discussions to discern where each unique team is on their Agile Journey and note areas of risk or resistance and develop actions to coach the team through these hurdles. This role will be supporting the Product Owner with project/release status, documenting velocity, capacity, individual sprint burndowns, overall project Burndown, facilitating discussions for Sprint Planning and Retrospectives. It is critical that this individual keeps encouraging the team to express themselves openly and respectfully and develop accountability to each other and commitment to the project
Responsibilities:
Facilitate team training and notate team's maturity in the Agile Scrum process
Coach the Product Owner and team through creating and estimating the Product Backlog
Review and update the daily Sprint and Release burndowns to measure velocity and predict release completion
Facilitate negotiations between the Product Owner team and development team on priorities and dependencies
Continue to update and analyze capacity, velocity, and scope and maintain a Project Burndown
Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning sessions and Retrospectives to keep the team focused and on track with the objective and make the meetings efficient.
Skillfully facilitate discussions and know when to allow a deeper discussion to continue, when to cut the discussion off, or redirect the discussion to a parking lot for discussion with a smaller group.
Provide data such as the release burndown to the Product Owner and relevant levels of management to help them engage in data-driven decision making
Present to multiple levels of management and articulate the status of the project
Coach the team through adoption of the Agile Scrum process with positive and negative feedback
Engage with management as appropriate to assist in removing organizational and systemic impediments
Accountability to team for documenting progress and publishing the results with transparency in printed (Information Radiators in the team room) and electronic formats such as maintaining a team website
Determining communication plans and methods
Facilitate in the key Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Developer Demonstration).
Experience:
3-5 years as Project Leader or Scrum Master
Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to team development.
High energy and passion for the job
Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
Contact:
Hubert Magsalin
Technical Recruiter
PSG Global Solutions
303-547-1959
