The Scrum Master plays a key role in helping accelerate and develop well-functioning Agile teams by facilitating daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, identification of risks, and ensuring teams are communicating with each other and are self-accountable. In this your role as a Scrum Master, project manager, and coach, you will apply agile values and principles to ensure best practices are followed.
Responsibilities:
Assist both product and engineering teams through the various phases of the agile development cycle.
Coordinate and organize planning, design retrospective meetings with the teams during the agile development cycle.
Enforce the agile process workflow and hold individual team members accountable for their responsibilities and commitments.
Foster teamwork and communication between teams as well as help bubble up potential issues and slippage.
Establish strong working relationships with partner teams across the organization to identify dependencies and align priorities and deliverables
Assess roadblocks and problem situations to identify root causes and work with stakeholders to come up with a resolution or recommendation.
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution between as well as within teams.
Document, communicate and evaluate process changes.
Report on the progress of the agile iterations as well as overall reporting meaningful to business stakeholders.
Report up status and risks - create and measure teams according to metrics established by the team
Anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions. Own and drive those solutions.
Encourage and coach teams to be self-accountable and self-empowered
Qualifications:
3 years of relevant agile project management experience for a SaaS solution.
2 years facilitating and delivering projects at technology-based companies or technical domains
Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science, Information systems, Engineering, Computer applications or related field
Certified Scrum Master or Agile certification a plus
Experience using Agile methodologies with SaaS application development projects.
Knowledge of Agile Project Management tools such as Azure DevOps, VersionOne, JIRA or equivalent.
Good understanding of the software development life cycle models, especially Agile.
Good mix of both business and technical background to be able to effectively interact/assist with different teams.
Ability to take initiative and apply critical thinking techniques to analyze problems, develop solutions or manage risk
Experience with CI/CD deployment of cloud solutions a strong plus
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience interacting with both business and IT teams.
Experience working with distributed teams.
Job Classification
Industry: IT-Software, Software Services Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance, Role Category: Project Management Role: Project Management Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any Specialization Post Graduation: Any Postgraduate in Any Specialization
Contact Details:
Company: Catchpoint Systems Inc Location(s): Bengaluru