Scrum Master III

Product Development, Sr. Scrum Master - Touch Net

Leads cross‑functional teams to provide agile-based product deliverables and facilitates the team's work to accelerate delivery of business value by ensuring adherence to Scrum methodologies and processes. Identifies, resolves, or escalates issues in order to minimize delays, and serves as the intermediary between multiple product owners, managers, and team members. Using strong communication, facilitates the product team through the Scrum process of Release Planning, Sprint Planning for multiple product owners, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives in a fast‑paced environment with competing priorities.

Sets the example for Agile methods based upon the designated principles and ensures they are understood and exercised consistently within the team. Responsible for planning and reporting on release budgets and monitors their progress. Obtains a high level knowledge of projects to successfully conduct project meetings, such as grooming, and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.

The Product Development PMO team is looking for an organized, detailed‑oriented individual to join our team. As a maturing agile organization primarily focused on Scrum, we also have teams moving towards Kanban as well as the organization exploring SAFe. We are looking for an experienced Agile Scrum Master, with Project Management skills as well, who in collaboration with the Software Development management team, will take on the management and statusing of key software development projects with the goal of delivering every project on time, within budget and scope.

This Agile Scrum Master will also work closely with the scrum teams, leading them and helping manage the daily scrum activities.

Local to Lenexa – required to collaborate in person 3 days a week.

3 team members.

• Assist in the management of roadmaps, project scopes and objectives while collaborating with the Product Owner(s), Solution Analyst(s), and Development Manager(s).
• Manage projects that typically require making simple to moderately complex changes to standard processes and plans.
• Collaborate, negotiate, and manage issues to resolution. Conduct conflict management with internal stakeholders as requirements are identified, delivery issues arise, and scope changes are requested.
• Gather project sizing information from appropriate teams, and ensure all projects are properly and accurately estimated and timely billed.
• Make decisions within established processes, methodologies, etc.; with some oversight, make recommendations outside of established guidelines.
• Use the ability to communicate clearly and concisely to conduct Daily Scrum meetings. Guide and develop clear Sprint standards while keeping the team engaged and on task.
• Enact Scrum values and practices. Provide updates on the team's performance, removing impediments that hinder team progress and facilitate Grooming/Refinement, Sprint Planning, Demos, Retrospectives and Daily Standup meetings for the assigned team(s).
• Guide the team to adhere to working agreements, help resolve impediments and create a culture of continuous improvement by fostering empowerment and promoting best practices for platform maintenance and development.
• Create a team environment by establishing trust and transparency through collaboration & communication.
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation. Engage team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; encourage discussion and conflict resolution.
• Initiate, build and maintain positive relationships with Product Owners, IT, and Services to facilitate effective completion of project work.
• Partner with the development leads or appropriate team members for capacity planning and resource allocation in Agile tools.
• Guard and shield the team(s) from distractions and interruptions from external interferences.
• Coach teams to break down business requirements into stories and tasks.
• Promote and lead teams to continuous improvement of structure, processes and tooling to enable the teams to deliver increased value.
• Champion accountability within and outside the team, routinely demonstrating a good understanding of the overall business and the technical terms presented.
• Use strong analytical and problem resolution skills to identify difficult sources of impediments.
• Gather Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for assigned scrum teams, using them to drive change and improvements.
• Advocate and lead full Product Development team procedures and processes, taking the lead in helping document and communicate if needed.