Scrum Master/ Agile Facilitator

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 5th Dimension Consulting Full time
Apr 27, 2023 | Information Technology (IT)

Job Role

  • The primary responsibility is assisting the development of selforganizing, selfmanaging Teams to achieve their goals. As members of the Agile Chapter, they work with the extended Agile Facilitator community to increase the effectiveness of Agility.
  • With a squad and, together with the Product Owner, facilitate the processes which ensure value delivery.
  • Help educate squad members in the required tools and frameworks, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed.
  • Help remove impediments and foster an environment of highperformance, continuous flow and relentless improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the Product Owners (POs) in discovery by practicing relevant Agile techniques (e.g. journey maps) and facilitates in carving out MBI/MVP for larger epics.
  • Guide the PO in elaboration to capture the key requirement details within the Group's ecosystem.
  • Support PI Planning by facilitating timeous team breakouts and help them identify their respective backlogs and dependencies.
  • Facilitate and ensure that the squads conduct the backlog refinement cadence to slice the feature to user stories at least once within an iteration.
  • Facilitate and ensure that the team conduct iteration planning cadences to plan for iterations.
  • Create and manage iterations within Group's ecosystem in alignment with the iteration schedule published by release management.
  • Ensure daily stand ups are practiced so that the team has:
  • Alignment on the value to be delivered on a given day.
  • A quick view on what value was delivered the day before.
  • The opportunity to highlight any impediments that need to be removed to meet the iteration goal.
  • Manage and ensure that the iteration board are kept updated to reflect the current status.
  • Encourage the team to achieve a healthy burn down of user stories/features within an iteration.
  • Represent the respective squads in squad sync and ensure that the teams are aligned, aware & adjusts for any technical dependencies.
  • Work closely with End2End team, Ways Of Working Support Services team & other support structures to ensure smooth functioning of the squads.
  • Facilitate in show & tell (iteration demos & integrated system demos) and ensure the squads are able to effectively present their deliverables.
  • Facilitate and ensure that the squads conduct retrospectives every iteration ensuring inspect and adapt principles.

Requirements:

_Qualifications_

  • Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous.
  • Scrum Master Certification will be advantageous.

_Experience_

  • Minimum 2 years working experience in a fully Agile and DevOps environment.
  • Utilisation of dashboards, KPI/metrics and burn down charts.
  • Knowledge of:
  • Engineering practices
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Behavior Driven Development methodology
  • CI/CD pipeline and the master run executions
  • The release process.

_Knowledge/ Skills_

  • Knowledge of Scrum principles
  • Product development process knowledge
  • Agile methodology
  • Sprint methodology and Project Management
  • Reporting and Administration.

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