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Scrum Master
Annapolis Junction, MarylandScrum Master
TS/SCI CI Poly
Annapolis Junction, MD
Primary Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
TS/SCI CI Poly
Annapolis Junction, MD
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
- Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.
- Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers on implementing solutions.
- Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.
- Coach, support, and enforce Scrum process and other process rules.
- Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.
- Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management.
- Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
- Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning.
- Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
- Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.
- Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.
- Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.
- Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members' contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.
- Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.
- Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals.
- Lead teams towards Agile maturity.
Basic Qualifications
- At least 8 (eight) years of current or very recent work experience working as a Scrum Master, preferably on a large, technical program.
- Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
- Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC).
- Experience with using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, across diverse systems and groups.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
- Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
- Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
- Experience affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.
- Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.