Job title:- Scrum Master
Location:- Richmond, VA 23219
Duration:- 12 Months
Pay rate:- $50/hr – $70/hr on W2
Qualifications:
Delivery Manager
- Position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices.
- Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts.
- Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges.
- Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels.
Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
- Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
- Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
- Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management
- Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
- Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
- Removes impediments for the agile teams
- Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
- Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
- Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
- Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
- Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).
Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology.
Communications: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience.
Risk Management: The individual is responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function’s risk management.
Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.