This is a 6 month contract to start, possibility for an extension. -Start ASAP after the new year.
* Scrum Master* . The ideal candidate will have a natural inclination for Servant Leadership and will embrace, foster, and facilitate the Scrum framework across multiple teams and deliverables in an Agile development environment*. *CSM Scrum Master certification *PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * - Actively Facilitate all of the Scrum and Agile rituals, including: - User Story Grooming/Refinement - Sprint Planning - Daily Scrum - Sprint Review - Sprint Retrospective - Establish team working agreements, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint - Establish sustainable pace – plan team capacity and sprint velocity targets - Foster a highly collaborative and communicative environment - Provide ongoing Scrum coaching to the team and to business partners and other stakeholders as required - Establish and maintain highly effective partnerships with Project Manager, Product Owners and Development Managers - Work closely with Product Owner to support Sprint Planning - Ensure follow through on Retrospective action items - Monitor Release and Sprint burn down/burn up and facilitate course correction where required - Become an expert user of Agile lifecycle management tools (e.g., Rally) and help others ramp their knowledge of the tools ------------------------------ *EXPERIENCE:* - Minimum Five years’ experience with a software development team - Two years’ experience working in a Scrum team environment - Significant facilitation experience either in senior contributor, scrum master or project management role - Experience with Agile Lifecycle Management *REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:* - Demonstrated expertise in the Scrum Framework and Agile Methodology, including strong working knowledge of *Scrum**Values*, *Roles*, *Rituals*, and* Artifacts, *as well as *Agile** Principles *and* Values* - Firm understanding of the value of team commitments to delivery and related metrics - Firm understanding of the value of incremental delivery - Firm understanding of user story construction, user story estimation, sprint health indicators (burn-down/burn-up), velocity, continuous improvement - Strong ability to communicate clearly and articulate project conditions (verbal & written) - Ability to coach and influence multi-disciplined and cross-functional teams - Ability to maintain technical proficiency in current Agile Lifecycle Management software Thanks & Regards, *Fazal* *Aspire Systems Inc*. / *Ph # (732) 414 2854* *Certified Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) from NMSDC* *NYS MBE Certified ( New York State MBE Certified)* *E-Verified Approved Employer* *Four Time Award Winner ( 2009* & 2010 & 2011 & 2012) Best of Danbury Award Approved Inc. 500 Company *Corp Office: **36 Mill Plain Road, Danbury, CT 06811* *Fax : 203 798 0060* *Email: fa...@aspiresystem.com <fa...@aspiresystem.com>* *Gtalk: fazalmrecruiter* *URL: **www.aspiresystem.com* <http://mail.aspiresystem.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.aspiresystem.com> [image: Signature_Asp] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "java-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to java-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to java-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/java-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.