Position: Scrum Master Location: Sparks, MD Duration: 6+ Months Provides coaching on Agile values and practices while emphasizing continuous improvement Enables individual project teams to share their learning with the organization Encourages collaboration and proactively seeks opportunities to improve collaboration Tracks and ensures visibility of historical team metrics and progress of the iteration and release Emphasizes the need for incremental releases, iterative work and prioritization by value and risk Assists with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information, especially relative to historical team metrics, progress towards iteration and release goals, and team capacity Partners with technical leads to ensure the team is producing a solution that meets established standards, procedures and practices Collaborates with project teams to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans Instills a sense of urgency reflecting the goals for the current iteration, upcoming release, and project vision, while passionately emphasizing the importance of meeting these goals Optimizes, increases and sustains throughput; ensuring prioritization of work by value and risk Is collaborative in driving decisions and team behavior, guarding against making decisions and assignments for the team and instead creates and environment where teams have the context needed to make the best decision Ensures iteration-based meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved and their cadence is maintained Assists team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking Proactively identifies and removes blockers, limits work in progress and prevents distractions Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements Identifies, creates and defends opportunities for expediting feedback throughout the iteration Participates proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
Job Requirements: Must have 6+ years IT experience Must have 1+ years of hands-on ScrumMaster experience utilizing Agile delivery framework, such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban Hands-on experience in the proactive, passionate improvement of software development process and practices to optimize business value delivery Preferred to be a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent Preferred to have experience with distributed development teams which span multiple geographies, time zones and cultures Preferred to have direct experience in a Web, Java, XML, RDBMS development environment Must have hands-on experience and a thorough understanding of agile software development *Regards,* Tejas Patel *X**Duce* Certified Minority Business Enterprise Consulting | Staffing | Licensing |Training - www.xduce.com Phone: 551-333-9981 |Email: [email protected] *X**Duce* is an IT Solutions & IT Staffing Company, with expertise in Cloud, Database Management, SOA and Golden Gate. XDuce improves client business performance via true partnership initiatives and world-class consulting. *X**Duce *has 4 brands *C**onsulting - **Excellence by Delivering Results | L**icensing - **Great pricing, huge Savings | T**raining - **Optimum Value on your ROI | S**taffing - **Connecting the Expertise with the Opportunity. *Let's begin Developing Your *Competitive Edge....* *Today!* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sap-vendor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
