Scrum Master Job Description

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The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum. Scrum Masters do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.

The Role of Scrum Master

Service to the Product Owner

The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:

  • Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
  • Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
  • Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items. Understanding product planning in an empirical environment. Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
  • Understanding and practicing agility.
  • Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.

Scrum Master Service to the Development Team

The Scrum Master serves the Development Team in several ways, including:

  • Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
  • Helping the Development Team to create high-value products.
  • Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress.
  • Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
  • Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

Scrum Master Service to the Organization

The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:

  • Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
  • Planning Scrum implementations within the organization; Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development; Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team; and,
  • Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

Must possess knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines.

  • Practice and encourage continuous improvement both personally and with the team.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects while paying strict attention to detail. Self-starter, with comfortability in fast-paced environments.
  • Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with others.
  • Strong organization skills and attention to detail required. Demonstrate excellent leadership skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and make decisions.
  • Able to deal with conflict, provide training on the Agile approach to project management, motivate and drive teams to be high performing.
  • Understand areas of application development, database, infrastructure, and client server architectures
  • Experience with QA automation preferred Experience with Jira Cloud software Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 1-4 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, IT Project Manager / Scrum Master in and Agile environment.
  • Certified scrum master desired.

Candidates need to be residents of Sana'a city and willing to go trough acceptance testing (psychometric and technical) and face-to-face interviews.

NOTE: the current available posts are contractual on temporary basis.

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