Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Type: Contract Job #17235 About the role Our Scrum Masters play a key role in addressing and removing issues and impediments to the team's progress and facilitating team's key events.
They support the team to negotiate priorities and goals with the Product Owner and protect them from outside interruptions and distractions.
They also support the team to establish and maintain velocity ensuring they remain on track to meet their agreed goals.
Scrum Masters work under the limited direction of a manager.
They exercise both initiative and judgement in the application of agile values, principles and practices.
Our Scrum masters help to balance the work of the team in the context of competing priorities, including contributing to planning, changes in workplace practices and business improvement strategies.
Scrum Masters support Product Owners to ensure there is an appropriate backlog of prioritised work items based on the overall strategy and overarching business objectives.
Key responsibilities Build the team's knowledge of agile values, and principles, as well as techniques, processes and tools in collaboration with the team, develop a mutually agreed social contract outlining team behaviours, practices and agile process rules Plan and facilitate agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives Assist the Product Owner with reviewing and refining the product backlog, re-prioritising and re-assessing the relevance of tasks/stories to ensure alignment with agile principles Anticipate and address/remove blockers/impediments that the team may encounter so the team can remain focused on its goals Negotiate with product owners and stakeholders to protect the team from external influences impacting their ability to meet the agreed goals Co-ordinate with other teams as required to manage dependencies and support the team to deliver Oversee new starters, ensuring a smooth transition into the team including introducing the social contract Help the team manage conflicts and challenges, and play a key role in improving team cohesion, motivation, dynamics and performance Conduct agile rituals and events and be actively involved in communication and change activities involving stakeholders Facilitate teams and enable them to self-manage and self-organise Develop and implement changes in workplace practices and business improvement strategies and assist team to transition with change.
Highly desirable criteria Knowledge/experience in Jira Experience working in large complex organisations Benefits Multiple locations available – ACT, VIC and QLD Long Term Contract – 12 months initial with 2 x 12 month extension options Work with a client that prioritises the supply of critical government services Contact details For a confidential chat, please contact Tayah on 0498 476 677 or via email at ****** and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.
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