Scrum Master

Role: Project Manager(Scrum Master)
Contract Term: 6+ months
On-Site Requirements: Memphis, TN

Description:
Need an experienced Scrum Master, preferably with some project management background. We are seeking a mature Leader comfortable planning and driving projects and holding teams accountable.
Responsibilities:

• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and deliver projects and programs

• Decide on suitable strategies and objectives for the product team

• Facilitate sprints planning, sprint refinement, retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings

• Collaborate between developers, testers, and business stakeholders.

• Coach team members in Agile frameworks and Guide teams to higher scrum maturity

• Effective and clear verbal and written communication

• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or
stakeholders)

• Support the product owner and provide education where needed by work with product owners to handle backlogs, prioritization and new requests

• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur for the team

• Help teams implement changes effectively

• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint

• Monitor and improve the team's velocity.

• Help build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it

• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices

• Help the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction

• Lead and development self-organization scrum team

• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments

• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity

• Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected project across multiple teams

• Guide the team to apply the 5 whys to each proposed user story

• Guide the team to focus on the desired behavior or outcomes

• Provide weekly executive summaries of the project's progress
Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience in Agile

• Prior experience in project management is preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in management or a relevant field;

• Excellent organizational, communication, management and leadership skills

• Experience with budget, scope and schedule management

• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques