*Client : Health Care Group*
*Job Title : Scrum Master* *Location : Eden Prairie, MN* *Position Type : 6 months and then possibility of hire* * Visa Status : **GC-EAD,GC, US Citizen only* *Job Description:* The Agile Scrum Master will be responsible for facilitating one or more scrum teams to support the delivery of strategic technology products. This position requires individuals who are not only experienced as a Scrum Master, but have extensive track records of delivering high quality systems and products. Applicants should have a strong understanding of and hands-on experience with Agile Methods, especially Scrum. Applicants will also be responsible for the coaching of their teams on scrum practices to ensure benefit from and adherence to core agile principles is achieved. *Responsibilities:* • Act as Scrum master for 2-3 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. • Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos • Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed • Ensure cross-team coordination • Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal • Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing • Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team. Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams. • Liaise between the developers and User Experience/Visual Designers. Foster better communication between the disciplines. • Act as a liaison to assigned project manager. Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties, release managers, or between our team and other scrum teams. • Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums. *Requirements:* • 4+ years of IT experience • 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master • 1+ year experience as a Scrum Master working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams • Experience with Rally. • Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well with teams • Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team • Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls. • Situational Awareness – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy • Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches • Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization • Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust • Quick learner – Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development • Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form • Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and Procedures Understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and Task definition Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics *Assets:* • Scrum Master Industry certification • Healthcare experience • Understanding of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise • Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team • Familiarity with common agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices Participation in industry Agile communities Thanks, shellydelegat...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/24d446e1-b3d0-47f5-b0e1-199e3b59b540%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
