Procom

You'll be responsible for promoting Agile values and principles within the EDM development team.. The Scrum Master acts as a buffer between the Enterprise Data Management scrum team and any distracting influences.. Helps Product Owner administer, prepare, groom, prioritize, and right-size the backlog. For mature teams, the Scrum Master charges the team with what they need to accomplish and asks the team to self-organize to accomplish the sprint goals. Familiarity with Agile tools/products such as JIRA, Confluence, Rally Pivotal, Clarity, etc.

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Senior Scrum Master – On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Senior Scrum Master to join their team for a hybrid 12-month contract opportunity in Southlake, TX. Job Summary: You'll be responsible for promoting Agile values and principles within the EDM development team. The Scrum Master is expected to do anything possible to help the agile team perform at their highest level. This may include: helping to remove impediments to progress, facilitating meetings and working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is well - groomed and ready for the next sprint. The Scrum Master acts as a buffer between the Enterprise Data Management scrum team and any distracting influences. Job Details: <ul><li>Assists the team by showing them their planned velocity vs. historical velocity, to make sure the targeted work can be accepted</li><li>Helps Product Owner prepare through multiple levels of planning and road mapping discussions</li><li>Fosters conversations/communications</li><li>Enforces team ground rules and cultural norms</li><li>Reviews action items and next steps and holds team accountable for follow through</li><li>Facilitates Sprint Reviews; Works with Product Owner and team to determine the agenda for the review</li><ul><li>Analyze and interpret sprint metrics</li><li>Status reporting and communicating accomplishments, issues, and risks to product stakeholders</li></ul><li>Facilitates Sprint Retrospectives;</li><ul><li>Encourages other team members to facilitate</li><li>Captures info and summarize as sprint planning input</li></ul><li>Backlog Refinement</li><ul><li>Working with the Product Owner</li><li>Helps Product Owner administer, prepare, groom, prioritize, and right-size the backlog</li><li>For new teams, the Scrum Master facilitates the tasking process</li><li>For mature teams, the Scrum Master charges the team with what they need to accomplish and asks the team to self-organize to accomplish the sprint goals</li></ul></ul> <ul><li>Ensures the team is fully functional and productive</li><li>Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions and removes barriers</li><li>Shields team from external interferences</li><li>Helps the team be productive</li><li>Encourages team to be more self-organizing and self-managing</li><li>Identifies, eliminates, or escalates impediments</li><li>Stays focused on delivery and quality, by encouraging teamwork and collaboration and minimizing silos and hand-offs</li><li>Finds techniques for effective product backlog management</li><li>With the Product Owner, clearly communicates product vision, roadmap and product backlog items to the development team</li><li>Monitors team for:</li><ul><li>Agile anti-patterns</li><li>People working in isolation for more than a day</li><li>Anyone making little visible progress</li><li>Wait times or other wasteful processes</li><li>Poor software engineering practices</li><li>Infrequent builds</li><li>Opportunities to amplify cross-training and T shaping</li><li>Slippages in quality or velocity trends</li><li>Ensures application of agile principles and understanding and practicing of agility</li><li>Fosters creativity and empowerment</li><li>Ensures the process is followed</li><li>Facilitates retrospectives and promotes continuous improvement </li></ul></ul>Required Skills/Experience: <ul><li>Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures </li><li>Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team </li><li>Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics </li><li>Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition</li><li>Familiarity with common Agile practices, Scrum service-oriented environments, and better development practices </li><li>Must be able to work with other teams across the organization that do not have agile practices or operate in more legacy workflows (i.e. waterfall or ticket based/shared services) </li><li>Ability to navigate complex release management environments and effective at planning and coordinating software releases at various intervals </li><li>Familiarity with Agile tools/products such as JIRA, Confluence, Rally Pivotal, Clarity, etc. is a plus </li></ul>Assignment Length: 12-month contract + possible extensions/conversion to FTE Start Date: ASAP

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