Additional education / Certifications

• CSM Certification is required. CSPO and SAFe are preferred

 

Years and area of Professional experience

• 7 to 10 years of experience in application development/Scrum Master/IT Project Management of which at least 5 years have been in a Scrum Master position.

 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal skills.
• Strong vendor management skills.
• Strong experience in demand management.
• Solid budget and financial analysis skills. 

 

Critical Professional related Technical Skills

• Computer Skills
• Analysis, design, construction and management of high volume web/hubrid applications inclusive
• Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development.
• Understand other development processes and methodologies and leverage other techniques to provide value to the team/enterprise.
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics.
• Understand backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices.
• Solid experience with Microsoft project, project management tools, spreadsheets and Visio.
• Besides this, understands “technical” Agile role focused on delivery and be able to understand the technical platform, design and can bring teams together to help resolve technical issues.

 

Other Requirements

• Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
• Communicative and social
• Must be able to communicate well with teams and fellow Scrum Masters.
• Facilitative
• Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.
• Assertive
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
• Situationally Aware
• Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
• Enthusiastic
• Must be high-energy.
• Continual improvement
• Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team.
• Conflict resolution
• Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches.