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    Scrum Master - Cape Town, South Africa - PBT Group

    PBT Group
    PBT Group Cape Town, South Africa

    Found in: Executive Placements ZA C2 - 4 days ago

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    Description

    PBT Group has an opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master. The Scrum Master will act as a mentor to the development team in data architecture, data modeling and data analysis.

    Duties:

    • Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile. Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
    • Facilitative; must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team, guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
    • Guiding and Coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on how to get the most out of self-organisation
    • Attitude of empowerment; must be able to lead a team to self-organization, guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
    • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation
    • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
    • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
    • Assertive; must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
    • Conflict resolution; must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
    • Communicative and social; must be able to communicate well with teams, assisting with internal and external communication.
    • Attitude of transparency; must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
    • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog.
    • Enthusiastic and Energetic
    • Continual improvement; must continually be growing one's craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
    • Situationally Aware; must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management

    Skills / Experience Required:

    • Scrum Master certification
    • Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a development team
    • Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. in order to explain other methodologies to motivate their team if needed.
    • Understand fundamentals of iterative development
    • Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
    • Understand fundamentals of 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, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
    • Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
    • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
    • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
    • The ability to distinguish between what "is Scrum" what is "not Scrum"
    • Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
    • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
    • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
    • Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)

    * In order to comply with the POPI Act, for future career opportunities, we require your permission to maintain your personal details on our database. By completing and returning this form you give PBT your consent

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