Scrum Master
- Cvent
- 5 - 7 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
The Scrum Master at Cvent (SM) facilitates processes, escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps to drive continuous improvement at the team level. The scrum master acts as a servant leader to the team and promotes scrum best practices and coaches the team to track, and constantly improves its velocity. The Senior Scrum Master is expected to handle 2-3 Sprint teams as a Scrum Master.
Position Duties
- Helps to establish sprint cadence.
- Coordinates with product owners to keep the sprint teams backlog ready and groomed.
- Facilitates sprint planning, review, daily scrum, refinement meetings, and retrospective events at the team level.
- Publishes committed sprint objectives.
- Identifies and escalates impediments.
- Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.
- Coordinates elements of the sprint plan with other technology staff outside of the project.
- Takes responsibility for managing dependencies within the sprint team as well as those dependencies from other development or operations teams.
- Participates as well as facilitate Scrum of Scrums.
- Encourages Architect, UX, QT and Sprint team collaboration.
- Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues and helps to ensure that team maintains adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLA).
- Facilitate Project / Epic estimation process.
- Communicates sprint status to stakeholders at a fixed cadence.
- Promotes adherence to Agile software development best practices.
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives at the team level.
- Acts as an Agile coach to the development team.
Candidate Requirements:
- 5-7 years of technical experience including 2-4 years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, task definition, and other Agile terminology.
- Large/enterprise application development experience using Agile methodologies preferred but not required.
- Strong leadership, time management, conflict resolution, and analytical skills.
- Able to act as servant leader at the team level or project level.
- Situational Awareness - Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise, make all necessary attempts to solve them before elevating them to management.
- Drive for continuous improvement.
- Quick learner - Must be able to quickly gain high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the development team.
- Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must.
- Outstanding written and oral communication.
- Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Jira and Confluence preferred,but not required.
- Experience and knowledge of PI planning will be an added advantage.
- Experience in project management will be an added advantage.
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: Project & Program ManagementRole Category: Technology / ITRole: Technology / IT - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CventLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Scrum Sprint Planning Kanban Backlog Refinement Sprint Review Retrospective
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