Scrum Master/ Agile Facilitator

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa 5th Dimension Consulting Full time

Apr 27, 2023 | Information Technology (IT)

**Job Role**
- The primary responsibility is assisting the development of self-organizing, self-managing 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 high-performance, 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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