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*Job Role: Scrum Master* *Location:* *Minneapolis, MN* *Duration: 6 Month + Contract to Hire* Client is looking for a *Sr* *ScrumMaster* to support the *Agile Adoption – Credit Union effort project*. *Job Description:* The Scrum Master leads and influences the Team according to their needs and to follow Scrum. The Scrum Master has experience with the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto and coaches others on the subtleties. He/She partners with the product owner to ensure the right deliverables are planned. Ultimately, the Scrum Master actively embraces that Scrum is practiced inside the Team in order to maximize product delivery/business value and protects the team from subtle interruptions and diversions. He/She proactively helps people outside the Team understand the kinds of interactions with the Team that are helpful (and those that are not). The Scrum Master is a champion for Agile adoption within Thrivent and involved in the external Agile community. *Required Qualifications:* -2-4 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business led initiatives -Demonstrated experience leading people -Demonstrated experience with incremental work delivery -Understand software development processes and procedures -Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Product Owner (CPO), Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), or equivalent Agile certification -Knowledgeable of common Agile practices, such as test driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, Kanban, etc. -Experienced with work tracking systems and Scrum management tools. Understand how to leverage tools for the benefit of the team. *Job Responsibilities:* A. Build and maintain the product roadmap and release plan based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team. B. Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction, and maximizes business value. C. Support the Team to plan work in releases, looking ahead one quarter or more. Ability to coordinate plans across multiple teams to achieve a specific set of goals/initiative. Ability to communicate regarding consolidated team accomplishments/results. Coordinate Scrum of Scrum collaboration. D. Support the Team to develop a sprint plan several sprints into the future to facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, project teams, and/or operational teams. Consult with the Product Owner to ensure priorities. E. Facilitate Scrum team ceremonies, including daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, and Retrospectives. Use techniques that foster a spirit of listening, empathy, awareness and foresight. F. Be a Coach for the Team, helping the Team to execute the Scrum framework. Act as a coach within a product area, a program or division for the benefit of your team. G. Ensure the Team is accountable for the commitments they have made. Handle advanced people change management (behaviors, mindset) and align people managers’ expectations with team members’ performance. H. Foster self-organization. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove issues whenever possible. Bring ideas from other experiences to the team for their consideration. I. Remove internal and external impediments for the Team that limit their ability to self-organize such as lack of support or behavior from another team or a functional manager that draws the team from their focus. Be proactive. Partner with other leaders to prevent recurring impediments. J. Shield the team from outside demands. Negotiate with others, when needed. K. Help the team monitor progress daily. Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally. L. Foster transparency and visibility and radiate information to the rest of the organization as appropriate. Support team progress reporting. Partner with stakeholders to ensure valuable Demos. Advance visual management for status reporting for the team and departmental crossteam needs. M. Request time for those who are external to the team. The Scrum Master is accountable to make external requests with sufficient lead time to properly support the work of their team. Build partnerships with external partners to enhance request flow. N. Understand and encourage technical practices that enable the team to get to ‘Done’ with high quality within each sprint. *Please include the below details with your updated resume if you interested with this position…* Full Name(As on Document): Contact: Email: Current location: Open to relocate or Location preferences: Work Authorization: Currently in project: Availability to start : Last 4 digits SSN: Total Years of IT Experience: Experience working in US: Education (Passing year of Bachelors/Masters): Skype id: Rate/ Salary: Regards, Rahul Agarwal TRG Inc. Email: rahul.agar...@tresourceinc.com GTalk: ra.usstaffing -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to us_itgroups+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to us_itgroups@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. 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