Senior Agile Master

1 week ago

Pretoria, South Africa Limpopo Personnel Full time

**QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**: - Degree or Diploma in IT, business or similar - Minimum of 5 years experience as a Scrum/Agile Master/Project Manager - Minimum of 5 years experience in the IT/Software DevOps industry. - Scrum Master / Product Owner certified through scrum.org or scrum alliance (Advantageous) **ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS**: Specific technical and functional skills - Agile Working / Scrum / Project Management - Strong process skills and processual thinking - Product Management Qualification - DevOps and BizDevOps - Understanding of Scrum/Kanban (Framework, Methods and Practices) - Understanding in ATC tool (JIRA, Confluence, X-Ray etc.) General technical skills - Ability to manage a technical team using agile methodologies - Knowledge of reporting techniques and well-documented patterns and techniques (burndown techniques, retrospective techniques) Soft skills - Ability to work as part of a team - Driven by others success - Effective Interpersonal skills to communicate and build relationships - Problem solving capabilities - Coaching mentality - Above-board work ethics - Punctuality - Consistency - Strong presentation skills - Flexibility to manage multiple teams and to take up different tasks in multiple teams **ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS**: - Change-Management (CM), Incident Management (IM), Problem Management (PM) - Co-ordination and Communication Management - Transition Management - Coaching and training skills and techniques **ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES**: - Tracking and communicating commitments, dependencies, and risks - Champion delivery success throughout the team and champion the early delivery of incremental benefits. - Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and add value to project and customers. Align within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding. - Collaborate with Product Owners, Feature Teams and Stakeholders across multiple sites/locations. - Give structure to workshops and meetings to help lead and facilitate the teams Agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. - Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization teams/Agile, i.e. "closing the loop" and "getting things done". - Assessing the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/project - Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right people/tools/processes to remove the impediment - Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame with an emphasis on problem solving. - Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency. A key part of this will be finding a way to show the current status/performance of the team. - Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. - Join Agile Masters CoP - Provide insights into the evolution of Agile KPIs in complex Agile teams to improve efficiencies at an organization level.

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