Scrum Manager - Surrey - Immediate Start - Six Month Contract

SCRUM MANAGER IS IMMEDIATELY SOUGHT BY LEADING GLOBAL ORGANISATION BASED IN SURREY.

Working within multi-skilled development teams and helping to transition into agile practices, we are looking for a hand-on Scrum Master who will need to be able to use their knowledge of agile processes to build their teams to maximise product delivery

KEY SKILLS
Servant Leader: Must be able to garner respect from his/her teams and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with teams.
Facilitative: Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.
Assertive: Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
Situationally Aware: Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
Enthusiastic: Must be high-energy.
Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team.
Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches

KEY EXPERIENCE:
Demonstrable experience of working in an Agile environment
Providing coaching/mentoring to team members in Agile (Scrum and Kanban) practices and processes
Knowledge of SAFe and scaling Agile would be an advantage
Working in concurrent or related scrum teams
Experience of delivering agile projects in a PRINCE 2 enterprise
Customer expectation management
Knowledge of Kanban would be an advantage
Workshop facilitation

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Act as Scrum master for 1-2 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed.
Ensure cross-team coordination.
Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing.
Work with other scrum masters in the team to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
Protect the team from interruptions and distractions.