Scrum Master
Posted 2 weeks ago by Ubique Systems on Linkedin
Job Description: The Scrum Master role is focused on leading Agile practices within a public sector project in Glasgow, Scotland. The candidate will be responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, removing impediments, and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles. This position requires strong communication skills and the ability to foster collaboration between technical and non-technical teams. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in the office and two days remote work each week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders
Skills Required:
- Scrum Master certification is a must
- 10+ Years of IT experience with at least 3+ years as a Scrum Master for a software development team
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
- Good understanding of software development life cycle models and traditional project management principles
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role – Scrum Master Only Scotland Based Candidates Interviews involved – 2 rounds
Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Hybrid mode – 3 days/week from Office is a mandate, 2days remote)
Contract Duration– 6 months contract (Under Client’s Payroll)
Public Sector Project
Job Description - The Scrum Master will be considered an Agile subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills, and the drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for participating proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, identifying and removing impediments, and preventing distractions. Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution, empower the team to self-organise, serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments and communicate with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience. Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures. Thorough understanding of technical issues. Relevant practical experience working on large-scale complex programmes and spanning a wide range of applications and technologies. Desirable to have a background in public sector IT delivery and ideally experience in leading technical teams.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Scrum Master certification is must.
- Additional certification like SAFe, PMP are preferable.
- 10+ Years of IT experience with played as Scrum Master role for at least 3+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Possess good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- 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.
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
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Job Description: The Scrum Master role is focused on leading Agile practices within a public sector project in Glasgow, Scotland. The candidate will be responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, removing impediments, and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles. This position requires strong communication skills and the ability to foster collaboration between technical and non-technical teams. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in the office and two days remote work each week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders
Skills Required:
- Scrum Master certification is a must
- 10+ Years of IT experience with at least 3+ years as a Scrum Master for a software development team
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
- Good understanding of software development life cycle models and traditional project management principles
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role – Scrum Master Only Scotland Based Candidates Interviews involved – 2 rounds
Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Hybrid mode – 3 days/week from Office is a mandate, 2days remote)
Contract Duration– 6 months contract (Under Client’s Payroll)
Public Sector Project
Job Description - The Scrum Master will be considered an Agile subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills, and the drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for participating proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, identifying and removing impediments, and preventing distractions. Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution, empower the team to self-organise, serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments and communicate with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure the team lives Agile values and principles and follows required processes and practices
- Tracks and removes impediments
- Builds relationships between the team, product owner and the wider SPM team
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Sprint Retrospectives.
- Ensures Agile and Scrum principles are properly implemented and adopted for successful delivery of the Sprint
- Facilitates refinement sessions to discuss new/modified User Stories and estimates
- Creates visual information boards e.g. Burn-down, Burn-up charts communicating progress to all stakeholders.
Relevant project management experience and Scrum Master experience. Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures. Thorough understanding of technical issues. Relevant practical experience working on large-scale complex programmes and spanning a wide range of applications and technologies. Desirable to have a background in public sector IT delivery and ideally experience in leading technical teams.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Scrum Master certification is must.
- Additional certification like SAFe, PMP are preferable.
- 10+ Years of IT experience with played as Scrum Master role for at least 3+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Possess good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- 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.
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
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