Info Origin Inc. · 1 month ago
6349 Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Atlanta, GA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
$55.66/hr - $67.04/hr
5+ years expInfoorigin inc is seeking a Scrum Master & Agile Coach to manage projects through their full life cycle and facilitate Agile practices within the IT Division. The role involves coaching IT Team Leads in Scrum and Kanban methodologies, fostering collaboration, and promoting continuous improvement to enhance team effectiveness and project success.
Information ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Under broad supervision, manages projects through full life cycle from project definition through implementation of project deliverables
Creates collaborative partnership with all internal and external team members to accomplish the deliverables
Facilitating and teaching IT Team Leads how to effectively run Scrum events, to reinforce client-adopted Agile principles, to manage incidents continuously and effectively, to analyze and remove impediments, and how to guide teams in both the Scrum and Kanban frameworks to create productivity
Guiding IT Team Leads in daily management of project and operational backlogs, fostering continuous progress on prioritized items, and teaching IT Team leads to apply both Scrum and Kanban practices with reporting to optimize workflow efficiency
Facilitate events to foster IT Team Lead Scrum and Accountability Training:
Train and support IT Team Leads in leading Scrum events such as daily stand-ups, planning, sprint planning reviews, ticket tracking board clean-up activities, and retrospectives with the intention of IT Team Leads becoming proficient
Assist with ceremony refinement to promote best practices for items such as story writing and task prioritization and participation
Ensure that IT Team Leads become organized, informed, project tool proficient, and assess meetings to ensure relevant team members are present and informed of prioritization of their items to ensure buy-in, alignment, and project success
Use daily observations to facilitate trainings, education, and documentation to reinforce all incorporated best practices to ensure team accountability, tracking of project/ticket progress, the awareness, acumen, and participation of IT Team Leads
Coach teams and Train IT Leads to Coach Teams:
Coach alongside IT Team Leads, with the intent of demonstration and training, to ensure that team members are well versed on both Scrum and Kanban principles and practices to foster self-organization and continuous improvement
Hold team leads accountable for working on items that align with IT leadership priority, which includes operational team supporting developer scrum team success
Train teams to be empowered to address issues, make recommendations, and manage incidents as a team working toward the same goal of success and remediation
Analyze and remove impediments:
Train IT Team Leads to manage incidents and to identify and remove blockers that hinder the teams’ progress
Identify when dependency analysis is necessary and incorporate that into a plan to handoff to client IT to incorporate into their ceremonies
Manage backlogs daily:
Collaborate with the Technical Leads and IT Management to train on keeping and maintaining a clear, prioritization-aligned, and well-managed product backlog
Promote continuous improvement:
Facilitate continuous improvement through retrospectives and help teams implement actionable changes that are scheduled and are in a process where they will not be ignored
Reinforce process adherence:
Redirect IT Team Leads to adhere to the chosen Scrum framework (Sprints for developers and Kanban for infrastructure/operations) best practices, including implementing and incorporating Kanban’s operational functionality that creates flexibility, WIP limits and the documentation of repeatable tasks that can be used to improve throughput
Foster collaboration:
Coach Sprint Teams and Kanban Teams to work collaboratively to ensure communication to work toward an eventual successful incremental deployment
Drive team effectiveness:
Focus on improving the team's overall effectiveness and ability to deliver high-quality products by documenting all training for IT Team Leads and best practices in a living Working Agreement for teams to refer to when there is ambiguity around team/team member roles and best practices
Qualification
Required
Candidate must have at least 5 years' experience working with Agile Teams
Strong knowledge of both Scrum and Kanban methodologies and their underlying principles
Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills
Ability to analyze, identify, and resolve team impediments and conflicts
Experience in managing and prioritizing backlogs that align with IT Leadership priority
Strong communication skills to facilitate collaboration among team members, technical leads, architects, project managers, security team, and stakeholders
Understanding of how to apply Kanban's core principles, such as explicit workflow, visualizing work, and limiting work in progress
Understanding of how to apply Scrum Team best practices to ensure successful daily scrums, collaboration, alignment, risk analysis, and participation for ongoing team dynamics that facilitate successful iterative deployments
Servant leadership mindset, focusing on team needs and enabling them to be self-organizing
Proficient in Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), ServiceNow (ITSM and Agile Modules), MS Teams, and Office365
Agile Certifications Required (Scrum Master certified at minimum)
Company
Info Origin Inc.
Info Origin is a global provider of information technology consulting, application development and software engineering services.
51-200 employees
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