Scrum Master

•       Responsible for ensuring that the teams adhere to the agile/scrum practices prescribed by the VM Digital Agile Practice.

•       Organize and conduct scrum events, including sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospectives, product demos and daily scrums.

•       Partner with Product Owners to achieve high-quality and timely deliverables based on highest business value.

•       Manage sprint planning and execution, including providing clear visibility into sprint status.

•       Participate in roadmap planning and scheduling by providing scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and creating velocity and delivery forecasts.

•       Ensure high throughput of development teams by identifying and mitigating potential issues and roadblocks.

•       Work with stakeholders ensure product backlog is prioritized, refined, and detailed to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework.

•       Facilitate issue resolution within the team, including safeguarding scrum team from external influences or diversions.

•       Assist with backlog maintenance and prioritization of defect resolution.

•       Coach scrum team members in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.

•       Create and maintain sprint and product burndowns, velocity metrics and projections, and forecasts in order to demonstrate transparency and openness, and to enable timely adjustments.

•       Contribute to the rollout of agile methodologies by contributing to training and coaching of team members and management.

•       Works hands-on with scrum and Kanban teams, supporting and guiding them in ways of working and agile deliveries. 

•       Supports and collaborates with other agile practitioners, managers, and project managers to ensure alignment and standardization of agile practices and team deliverables.

•       Liaises with the Product Owner and delivery leads to understand strategic priorities, key business & technical objectives, and product roadmaps.