Lead and facilitate Scrum processes and ceremonies, remove impediments, coach and protect the team, run release and sprint planning, groom backlog using Definition of Ready, facilitate estimations, conduct requirement-gathering workshops, breakdown stories into tasks, baseline features for upcoming releases, and resolve team issues to ensure progress against Program Increment commitments.
Job Title: Scrum Master
Duties:
- Facilitating Scrum Processes, Remove impediments, coach and protect the team, ensure transparency across the board
- Facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
- Facilitating Release planning for resource, scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk at a design level by setting up a 2-day itinerary.
- Preparing release planning to decide on the number of sprints required to finish the work.
- Facilitating the baselining of high-level features to be picked up for the upcoming release, normally for a duration of 3 months.
- Facilitating requirement gathering interviews, conduct workshops, issue clarifications, and review documentation.
- Facilitating the estimation, review the estimates, and communicate to all the stakeholders using Scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitating Product backlog grooming to ensure the team always has a healthy product backlog.
- Use of DOR- Definition of Ready concept, to ensure that all the bases are covered when product backlog grooming is carried out.
- Facilitating sprint planning to set the sprint goal or objective.
- Facilitating detailed planning - breakdown stories into tasks and ensure the team has separated the stories into tasks, as this will enable the team to consider everything that should be done to finish the stories.
- Facilitating issue resolution within the team.
Photon Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
DLF IT Park 1/124 Mount Poonamallee Road Sivaji Gardens Manapakkam , Chennai, India, 600089
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