Scrum Master

Title: Scrum Master

Location: Remote

Length: Long term

Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Interview Type: Skype *** Very long term project; initial PO for 1 year, expect to go for 4+ years *** **Remote*** need 3 references

Description:

The Scope of this project will be to modernize the existing lotus notes application to .Net application while considering the business process optimization or digitizing the manual business process at the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ). With this project the aim is to achieve process efficiencies & streamlined to improve the user experience, and reduce manual workarounds for OJJ employees on the operations side.

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

Facilitation of Scrum Master

Daily Scrum Meetings

Sprint Planning Meetings

Sprint Review Meetings

Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Maintain Team Dynamics

Coaching team members (e.g., with one-on-one coaching)

Mediating through impediments & conflicts

Identifying outstanding project and product decisions impacting team delivery

Fostering the assigned team’s self-organization

Supporting Team, Project and Organization goals with project leaders and product owner(s)

Giving feedback to the team

Encouraging the use of Agile Practices within the development teams

Recognizing team productivity issues & fostering continuous improvement methods to resolve the issues.

Help in product related activities

Helping teams and vendors with the release planning

Being familiar with the team (i.e., the product)

Supporting the big picture

Bringing people together who should talk to each other

Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly

Helping the team report to management

Helping to further the Agile community within the organization

Being a contact person for everyone on 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 (e.g., technical debt)

Facilitating change

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

Five (5) years minimum experience working in the Scrum Master role

Familiarity with JIRA

Agile software development (Scrum Methodology)

CSM certification

experience with Lotus and/or .Net projects

government experience

Experience preparing presentations for project stakeholders

Experience facilitating team building activities