Templeton and Partners are looking for Scrum Master with media/broadcasting background for our global client. The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum and Agile. The Scrum Master does this by helping everyone understand Scrum / Agile theory, practices, rules, and values.
Contract- months, inside IR35
Location- Leeds, hybrid ( 2 days per week at the office)
Requirements:
* media/ broadcasting background
* Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM).
* Significant experience leading technology Scrum Teams.
* Significant experience in an Information Technology / Software Development organization.
* Significant experience with Agile development processes.
* Experience doing release planning and milestone planning (based on the velocity).
* Experience of working within a SAFe environment.
* Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field is desirable, but not essential for the right candidate.
Responsibilities:
* Cover 2 Scrum Teams, who work in the same front-end domain.
* Support SAFe events including PI Planning.
* Support Readiess activity for PI Planning, including dependency, risk and feature refinement.
* Attend and lead squad planning during the PI planning event.
* Is accountable for squad delivery and visibility of the plan.
* Proactively manages and communicates risks, issues and impacts to the PI plan.
* Support and work with the wider scrum master community across the value stream to participate in continuous improvement activity.
* Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
* Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
* Understanding product planning in an empirical environment.
* Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;
* Understanding and practicing agility.
* Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
* Assisting the product organization refine the user stories to make sure they are constructed with all the required information.
* Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
* Helping the Development Team to create high-value products.
* Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress.
* Facilitating all team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up / Scrum, Refinement Session,
* Sprint Planning, Sprint Review / Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.
* Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption.
* Planning Scrum implementations within the organization.
* Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.
* Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
* Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.