SCRUM Master
POSTION OVERVIEW:
Job Title: Scrum Master
Looking for candidates local to Montreal / Canada.
Description:
The scrum master is often referred to as a servant leader, a coach, or a facilitator. That is because, despite the use of the term master, the person in this role does not have authority to make strategic or substantive decisions about the product and is not held accountable for its value based outcome. Master refers to the fact they are mastering Scrum. (The entire team shares responsibility for the products success or failure.) The scrum master is responsible only for managing the process of moving the product toward completion and the development of healthy agility practices for the team. As a servant leader they are helping mature those processes and practices so the program and organization is sustained in agility.
Broadly speaking, the scrum master's responsibilities include:
-Helping the team agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
-Facilitating the daily standup (sometimes called the daily scrum) and helping the team reach consensus on the progression of the sprint goals.
-Helping the team continuously make progress on the product by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members, progress, and protecting the team from distractions. Here is a high-level overview of how the scrum master serves the various members of the scrum team, and the organization in general.
A scrum master serves the product owner by:
-Making sure everyone on the team understands the product's goals and scope.
-Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog.
-Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed.
Serves the development team by:
-Coaching the development team in self-organization and agility practices.
-Helping to remove obstacles to the developers' progress.
-Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed.
Serves the entire organization by:
-Encouraging the organization to adopt the scrum methodology in their own workflow.
-Coaching the organization on the transition to a scrum working framework.
-Keeping the organization, particularly the product's stakeholders, up to date on the progress of the scrum team's sprint goals.