Beschreibung
Role: Scrum MasterLocation: Ludwigshafen
Type of hiring: Permanent Contract (Festanstellung)
Joining Date: as soon as possible
Language Requirement: Fluent German and fluent English
Duties and responsibilities:
• Meetings
Facilitating meetings for the team. This includes:
Preparing
Moderation
Post processing
Holding retrospectives
• Team Dynamics
Coaching team members (e.g. with one-on-one coaching).
Mediating through conflicts.
Helping the team to make decisions.
Fostering the developer team’s self-organisation.
Mediating the general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner (more features).
• Learning
Continuing learning regarding everything Agile (e.g. visit user groups, attend conferences, read books, write blogs, etc.).
Consulting team members regarding everything Agile.
Helping the team to create information radiators.
• Giving feedback to the team.
Encouraging the use of Agile Engineering Practices within the development team
Challenge team with Agile management innovations (e.g. FedEx-Days).
Exchanging constantly with other Scrum masters in the organisation (e.g. through community of practice).
Doing Gemba Walks.
• Product
Helping to write or split user stories.
Helping to write or adapt product visions.
Helping to order product backlog items.
Helping with the release planning.
Being familiar with the team’s work (i.e. the product).
• Big Picture
Bringing people together who should talk to each other.
Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly.
Helping the team to report to management.
Helping to further the Agile community within the organisation.
Organizing exchange events like Open Spaces or World Cafés for the team, its stakeholders, and its organisation.
Sharing insights throughout the company (micro-blogging, blogging, internal conferences, etc.).
Being a contact person for everyone in the team and their stakeholders regarding Agile.
Giving learning opportunities to people in the organization (e.g. talks or workshops) and letting them learn important Agile concepts like e.g. technical debt.
• Change
Helping the team to get rid of impediments.
Suggesting new metrics for the team as catalysts for change.
• Mirror
Reflecting Agile and Scrum values to the team.
Reminding the team of their arrangements (e.g. policies).
Helping the team to continuously improve their process.
Reflecting issues to the team through observation from outside of the team.
• Asking open questions.
Checking all the models, the team uses (e.g. Sprint backlog, metrics, etc.) and show them differences between the model and the real world.
• Miscellaneous
Helping the team to keep focus (e.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the team).
Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc.).
• Helping team and product owner to find a suitable
Definition of done
Definition of ready.