Cape Town: Scrum Master posted by CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd

       Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team

       Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

       Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values

       Guiding and Coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on how to get the most out of self-organization

       Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

       Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

       Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

       Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

       Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

       Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

       Supporting and educating the Product Owner(s), especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog.

       Organise and facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, release planning, product showcases and other scrum related meetings.

       Facilitate sprint retrospective meetings, creating an environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or judgement, with an emphasis on problem solving and improvement.

       Facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and ensuring clear communication between all members of the Scrum team.

       Identify and manage risks early identification and management of issues and delays.

       Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.

       Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

       Manage multiple scrum teams.

       Facilitating SCRUM events for the team. This includes:

       Helping the team to make decisions.

       Continuing learning regarding everything Agile (e.g. visit user groups, attend conferences, read books, write blogs, etc.).

       Encouraging the use of Agile Engineering Practices within the development team (this is huge field to spend a Scrum Masters time in, including e.g. one click releases, continuous delivery, feature flags, and many more).

       Challenge team with Agile management innovations (e.g. FedEx-Days).

       Exchanging constantly with other Scrum masters in the organisation (e.g. through community of practice).

       Helping the team to get rid of impediments.

       Suggesting new metrics for the team as catalysts for change.

       Reflecting Agile and Scrum values to the team.

Requirements

       Scrum Master certification

       Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. 

       Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games 

       Familiarity with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques

       Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team 

       Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs,etc) 

       Previous Project Management or Development Team Lead experience  

       Excellent communication and mentoring skills 

       Excellent presentation and facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills

       Ability to effectively coach multiple teams with varying degree of complexity and time lines

       Organise and facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other related meetings

       Oversee project estimations, the development and tracking of integrated project plans and the development of project deliverables in order to meet project objectives

       Champion and embody the Scrum way-of-life across the development teams

       A proven track record in software project delivery at an enterprise level in an agile environment.

       Understand and know how to use standard project management tools and techniques to schedule, plan and track project and team performance.

       A deep understanding of investment and life products

       A deep understanding of South African Investment Platforms and platform operations.

       An understanding of financial sector regulation as it relates to investment platforms.