Scrum Master

1 month ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Vitality RSA**Function**:Information Technology**Date**:12 Nov 2024**Scrum Master - Vitality RSA Systems**

**About Discovery**
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
- **About Vitality RSA Systems**
Discovery Vitality RSA Systems is a dynamic and energetic environment which encourages an ownership attitude. The environment provides innovative systems development, architecture, support and infrastructure to our internal clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our business units and other key stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.

**Key Purpose**
- Is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team that does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level.
- Help form a self-managed team that is motivated, predictable, transparent and consistently delivers quality work and continually inspects and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the Agile values, principles and practices.
- Facilitates the removal of impediments teams face when developing solutions.
- Implements agile best practices within a team.
- Helps the development team, business and management develop a culture of collaboration - Act as a change agent to the team and organization.
- Supports the team to be self-organizing and function as an accountable, high performance team.
- Focused and goal driven and helps to achieve the Sprint goals.
- Be a master facilitator.

**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**:

- Act as Scrum master for 2 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Facilitate Scrum Events ensure that they are focused and productive (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming).
- Help facilitate Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning Sessions.
- Assist the Product Owner in prioritization and scheduling of work, to meet delivery time frames.
- Ensure backlog is in good standing by having regular re-occurring weekly backlog grooming sessions.
- Ensure that all the team members understand their role and fulfil them to the best of their ability.
- Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and ownership of the product - lead the team to a self-organized state.
- Build a high performing team, focusing on improving team dynamics and performance, help the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.
- Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity and create flow of work.
- Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments.
- Help the team make achievable sprint commitments with the use of velocity data and team availability.
- Help the team members communicate, co-ordinate and meet their delivery goals.
- Ensure the team / stakeholders adhere to Definition of Ready (DoR) / Definition of Done (DoD).
- Highlight risks and dysfunctions where the DoR / DoD is not met.
- Ensure the team uses the standardized reference story for estimating.
- Ensure understanding of the Agile principles and Scrum process, across teams and stakeholders.
- Ensure adherence to the Agile principles and Scrum process and help resolve any deviations.
- Raise issues that are putting delivery at risk as soon as they arise.
- Help facilitate delivery solutions and manage expectations.
- Responsible to produce the following artefacts (Weekly Sprint Reports, Release projection / Burndown) to create visibility and transparency of the progress and status of the systems delivery.
- Continually grow and share Agile knowledge.

**Personal skills and attributes**:

- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Drives Results
- Problem Solver

**Education and Experience**:

- Tertiary degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSC).
- Certified scrum master/scrum practitioner.
- Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban.
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle.
- Proficient with Jira / Confluence.
- Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form.
- At least 2-4 years experience working in a Scrum Master role.
- At least 2 years experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations.
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