Description:
- Accountable for the facilitation of appropriate Scrum ceremonies on a sprint-by-sprint basis. This includes Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
- Ensure the Product Owner regularly defines the sprint goal to provide clarity to the team on which stories to pull into the sprint from the backlog.
- For large and complex items, work with the Product Owner and team to break down complexity into epics, stories, and tasks. Ensure proper planning techniques to best manage timelines.
- Work with the Product Owner to ensure backlog health and 1-2 sprints of 'ready' stories at all times.
- Responsible for creating and managing an Agile transformation plan for the team to move to higher levels of Agile maturity.
- Provide regular updates and materials to the Director of Program Management to keep executive stakeholders updated on team progress and accomplishments.
Innovation, tracking and metrics
- Ownership for producing relevant metrics every sprint that help the team measure success and opportunities for improvement (e.g. committed vs. delivered, sprint burndowns, release burnups, etc.)
- Use past metrics to help the team pull in an appropriate number of stories each sprint.
- Draw upon the talents and perspectives of the team, bringing together data, systems thinking and curiosity in order to deliver on releases that create next-generation best in class experiences.
Coach and mentoring
- Enable teams to grow into high-performance, self-managing teams by being a coach, an excellent facilitator and collaborator.
- Leading and coaching teams and the organization through its Agile journey.