Title – Scrum Master

Location: UK - Remote

Job Details:

The Scrum Master role is to:

• Prepare the team(s) for the big room Planning Increment (PI) Planning events, ensuring they are briefed, that coordination and timely communication occurs with other teams and stakeholders for alignment. They facilitate multiple product teams (typically made up of 8-12 people each) in writing their PI objectives, presenting back their draft and final plans to other teams and business stakeholders.
• Optimise the flow of value at the team level and implement improvements. They are responsible for managing the work in the time box and coaching the team in the adoption of agile practices. They will be supporting the delivery of digital and data based planning products to improve efficiency and give better insights.

Key Accountabilities

• PI Planning/Coach Sync – Facilitate team level breakouts and provide general facilitation support to the Release Train Engineer (where needed)
• Team Events – Facilitate the Daily Stand-up, PI / Iteration Planning, and backlog refinement ceremonies
• Inspect & Adapt – Facilitate Iteration Reviews / Retrospectives and problem-solving workshops as and when required
• Product Backlog(s) – Work in collaboration with the Product Owner(s) to ensure there is a sized and prioritized team backlog of ready items
• Coaching product teams – Improve the team(s) ways of working, identifying and addressing skills gaps, resolving dependencies, impediments and solving conflict
• Servant leadership & reporting – Accountability for the product team(s) Kanban board, progress against objectives, flow / quality measures and Scaled Agile Framework adoption
• Risks, Impediments, & Dependencies – Accountable for their identification, visibility and effective resolution.