Scrum Master - Cape Town, South Africa - Expleo

Expleo

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Responsibilities:

Facilitate and organize all Scrum activities including daily Scrum meetings, sprint and release planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Guide and coach the team on Scrum and Agile practices to improve overall velocity and achieve objectives.
Coordinate the resolution of impediments across organizational boundaries.
Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
Assess agile maturity of the team; Coach project team to reach higher levels of maturity through continuous improvement.
Build and maintain release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts for project visibility and to ensure timely decisionmaking.
Work with Product Owner to document acceptance criteria, perform backlog grooming, and prioritize features/user stories.
Foster an agile mindset within individuals, teams, and organizations to help them better meet their goals.
Coach across different stages of an organization's agile journey, from introductory training and coaching to continuously improving highperforming teams.
Coach at varying levels of scale, from embedding within a single team to creating cohesion and alignment across an entire organization.
Work across the organization to help design and implement an effective Agile Transition for the business
Responsible for mentoring/coaching IT and business teams in a collaborative environment focused on achieving the effective Agile Transition.
Spinning up new teams and putting structures in place to assure their success
Agnostic approach to lean and Agile frameworks, helping teams to choose their ways of working based on their environment and challenges
Implement effective governance, escalation and reporting
Recommend improvements and drive adoption of best practices

Qualifications:
CSM or PSM Certification

Skills:

Strong ommunication skills
Must be selfmotivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, timecritical problems
Design Thinking
Thorough understanding of agile principles, values and processes
Experience working at an organizational level to define what Agile means for the Enterprise
High emotional intelligence and mature soft skills
Ability to work with strong stakeholders and to demonstrate strength and certainty to them

Experience:

35 years experience of working in Agile environments including work on agile transitions/transformations
Agile/scrum/waterfall methodologies development and large scale program management
Coaching team members and partners on agile and scrum methodology
Working with enterprise architecture environments
Gathering requirements and developing scope, artifacts, and roadmaps
Managing ways of working across internal and external teams.