Scrum Master Machine Data

Position

Scrum Master Machine Data

Education

Master

Location

Eindhoven area

Startdate

a.s.a.p.

Contract

12 months from start (extend possible)

Weekly hours

40

Closing date

25-9-2020

Introduction:
The Scrum Master (SM) guides the scrum teams, ensures timely delivery, facilitates the scrum rituals and helping the team to improve itself

Skillset: Team building and facilitation, removing roadblocks and knows everything about scrum , ownership and give guidance on quality and way of working

Job Description:

• Ensures timely delivery of committed items on the backlog of the agile team

• Leads, builds and facilitates the team to become high performing

• Creates transparency and alignment on team speed, quality of deliverables and happiness

• Signals and removes impediments to ensure timely delivery from the scrum team

• Ensures the team follows the technical way of working and ensures quality related to own discipline is secured in the team

• Manages suppliers and outsourcing execution (rituals)

• Creates focus in the team by shielding them from external interferences

• Provides analyses of current team rituals, evaluates bottlenecks and advice regarding improvements in team rituals

• Helps the people around the team to understand which interaction with the team is helpful or not

• Ensures dependencies and risks are managed by the team

• Reporting to Group Leader, operationally to the Release Train Engineer

• Ensures the pre-conditions are in place to start a work item (Definition of Ready)

Expected behaviour

• Coaches on agile practices and behavior for everybody in and around the scrum team

• Builds team and coaches team members to act as a team

• Acts as a servant leader and escalation level for the team

• Chairs and drives the rituals (scrum, sprint and program increment), ensures its disciplined execution, helping the team to understand why this is important

• Drives team level continuous improvement, i.e. challenges the team in view of the agile key performance parameters towards greater efficiency

• Ensures alignment with other Scrum Masters on dependencies

• Ensures focus and keeps the teams from getting distracted

• Ensures collaboration between scrum teams

Deliverables:

• Timely delivery of the committed work items from the team's backlog

• Facilitation of the team rituals (planning, retrospective, demo, standups, refinement, …)

• Report the status of the team’s Program Increment (PI) objectives

• Transparency on team performance (metrics)

• Transparency on dependency and risk status

• Report improvements and actions from the retrospectives

• Escalations to the release train engineer

• Ensure the tooling is up-to-date

• Impediment resolution and escalation

• I have the best job in the world because..

• I ensure the team delivers on time

• I see and help the team grow in their maturity

• I am a servant leader for the team solving team impediments

• I drive continuous improvement in the team

• I can use my wide variety of skills to mentor, coach, facilitate and lead the team and its surroundings

• I celebrate the successes of my team, and courageously show progress, impediments and improvements actions that are taken