Scrum Master Consultant

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Guiding the team on self-organization to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Enabling team to be more cross functional
• Conducting Scrum Ceremonies, Guiding the team in estimation and getting clarifications from PO, working with PO on regular basis
• 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.
• Tracking Agile Metrics as part of Sprint Cycle and reporting.
• Scrum Training Sessions for the unit/groups.

• Minimum 5+ years of relevant Scrum master experience in IT projects
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with remote teams in effective manner
• High flexibility to travel

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge and experience in handling various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience in implementing technical engineering practices (Code Refactoring, Addressing and preventing Technical Debts, TDD etc) in projects
• Professional scrum master certification like CSM/PSM/SAFe RTE/SAFe Scrum Master are preferable
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

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