ASSOCIATE SCRUM MASTER
Job Description
- The Product Delivery Lead is leader of a Autonomous Delivery Team who represents the needs of the stakeholders of LCP and ensures that the Team delivers sprinted outputs agilely which align with those needs.
- Product Delivery Lead retains accountability for responsibilities delegated to team members.
- This Company is a software-enabled services provider, synonymous with SAP on Cloud, focused on delivering superior, highly automated Managed Services to Enterprise customers. Our customers span multiple verticals and geographies across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. We partner with AWS, SAP, Microsoft and other global technology leaders.
- Key Measures
- Team achieves is objectives
- Key feature objectives achieved
- Delivery of outcomes as efficiently as possible
- Stakeholders are satisfied and happy
- Team members are satisfied and happy
- Team is cohesive and collaborative in delivery of outcomes
- Prompt escalation when needed
- Unwise delivery is avoided
Responsibilities Duties:
Requirements management
- Understand the nature of the business and the product in your functional pillar or service area
- Understand the relative value of requirements
Backlog management
- Organize User stories into any Epics (Major Features)
- Curate any Epics (with Product Manager)
- Work with dev team on User Story refinement
- Break any Epics into User Stories
- Organize any Epics into Releases
- Prioritize Stories within any Epics (with team)
- Assist Product Manager to Prioritize any Epics within Initiatives
- Prioritize Quick Wins (Minor Features)
- Escalates issues to Operations Manager
Scrum and Delivery Management
- Ensure Scrum stand-ups are efficient, regular, properly attended
- Ensure team maintains accurate data in the scrum tool
- Curate appropriate dashboards
- Convene and run sprint planning meetings
- Review and feed back on evolving solutions during build sprints
- Ensure regular Show-and-tells from dev team, and to key stakeholders where necessary
- Report via dashboards to the Scrum of Scrums and to the LCP Status Meeting
- Ensure any Epics progress properly though their workflows
- Agile Coaching
- Escalate issues to Operations Manager
- Ensure that retrospectives occur regularly
Line Management
- Timesheet and expense approval
Key Skills:
Requirements management
- Understand the nature of the business and the product in your functional pillar or service area
- Understand the relative value of requirements
Backlog management
- Organize User stories into any Epics (Major Features)
- Curate any Epics (with Product Manager)
- Work with dev team on User Story refinement
- Break any Epics into User Stories
- Organize any Epics into Releases
- Prioritize Stories within any Epics (with team)
- Assist Product Manager to Prioritize any Epics within Initiatives
- Prioritize Quick Wins (Minor Features)
- Escalates issues to Operations Manager
Scrum and Delivery Management
- Ensure Scrum stand-ups are efficient, regular, properly attended
- Ensure team maintains accurate data in the scrum tool
- Curate appropriate dashboards
- Convene and run sprint planning meetings
- Review and feed back on evolving solutions during build sprints
- Ensure regular Show-and-tells from dev team, and to key stakeholders where necessary
- Report via dashboards to the Scrum of Scrums and to the LCP Status Meeting
- Ensure any Epics progress properly though their workflows
- Agile Coaching
- Escalate issues to Operations Manager
- Ensure that retrospectives occur regularly
Line Management
- Timesheet and expense approval
Experiance Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from a three-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant experience in the Leadership role.
- Ability to work across seniority levels, for example from senior management through to offshore delivery centre engineer.
- Ability to work at different levels within OCTO team, examples being requirements curation through to coding a POC or working alongside a developer to realise a design.