This is a highly visible role, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering & IT. In the role of Scrum Master, you will be the driver our teams process, ceremonies and ultimately, delivery of products to our business.
In that context, we are looking for a leader— a scrum master that is comfortable getting into the details of the work, but ultimately, someone that the team looks to drive how our work gets done.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Drive Planning + Commitment
As our teams scrum-master, one of the largest expectations is your ability to drive planning + commitment to what we'll be executing across the team.
1. Facilitate Planning Sessions
- Work with Tech Leads to determine what the planning sessions are that are required: PdM + Area Leads, Areas Leads + Teams and Cross-Functional Teams
2. Develop Capacity Plan + Allocation Model
- Develop a capacity plan (detailed view) based on the FTE + Contract Devs and their available hours throughout the Sprint timeline.
- Drive the Engineering leads to complete estimation + assignment of stories in the backlog
- Develop a capacity allocation (detailed view) based on estimates + assignment of stories in the backlog.
- Work with Eng Leads in order to re-assign stories if specific individuals are out of balance
3. Facilitate Trade-Offs / Additions to Sprint
- As a function of allocation model, facilitate with PdM + Dept Head documenting the potential trade-offs in order to get a net capacity that is not over allocated.
- Facilitate with PdM + Dept Head + Eng Leads the addition of stories into sprint in order to bring utilization to at least 85% - 90% of available capacity
- Facilitate obtaining sing-off of trade-offs from other stakeholders
4. Communicate Plan
- Communicate the recommended Sprint to Dept Head and seek approval
- Communicate approved Sprint to other stakeholders (members of Projects Council)
Drive Accountability
As our teams scrum-master, one the greatest expectations is driving accountability to the commitments we made to each other and to the business. That means…
- Monitor and track progress of stories
- Predict blocking issues
- Keep members of the team honest in what they are 'signing up for'
- Run with blockers as they occur
- Drive cross-functional team work if you see something not happening
- Report sprint status (health) to PMO in agreed upon frequency + format
Constantly Refine Our Process
As our teams scrum-master, you are master of the process. In that context, we look to you to:
- Drive the development of our process
- Work with the team leads to evangelize and adopt it
- Constantly look for ways to make our process better
- Ensure the tools we use (and their configuration) do not get in the way, but enable + add value to the process