Scrum Master  

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
• Tracks work progress to identify blockages and developer divergence from allocated tasks
• Blocks Business, Operational Staff and Product owners from interference with
• Development Structure
• Polices channels for submission of development work requests
• Implements structure changes and strategy that are generated by agile retrospectives
• High velocity communicator - making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays and other detrimental events are communicated to those involved with the piece of work as soon as they arise
• Blocks stories that do not contain the right level of detail from entering the Dev Structure
• Blocks changes to work once in development without following the proper reevaluation process
• Removes blockers with extreme prejudice when raised by development team

Qualifications:

• Understand basic 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 or enterprise
• Understand basic fundamentals of software 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