Scrum Master
- Madison, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Initial responsibilities in support of project execution in software development
- Facilitating scrum ceremonies of teams participating in the project, supporting daily team standups, sprint planning, leading sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Working with teams, functional managers and project managers to identify and actively resolving any obstacles that hinder the team's progress, whether technical, process-related, or interpersonal
- Coaching and mentoring of the team scrum masters, guiding how to effectively use scrum practices, self-organize, and continuously improve their processes.
- Work with the Product Owner to help teams refine and prioritize the product and teams’ backlogs, ensuring clarity and understanding of user stories and definition of done
- Fostering open communication within the team and with stakeholders, ensuring transparency around project status and potential risks
- Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time including Atlassian JIRA
- Encouraging the team to reflect on their work during retrospectives and identify areas for improvement.
- Long term responsibilities to foster a culture of agile excellence
- Create a center for agile excellence by providing mentorship to team scrum masters
- Advocate for agile best practice adoption and incorporation into quality management system processes
- Advise engineering leadership on transformative changes and agile best practices.
- Lead the PI Planning process across R&D and develop processes to increase velocity and burndown predictability
- Identify and implement improvements and best practices in JIRA, Smartsheet, and other tools to support resource allocation, capacity forecasting, and project progress reporting.
- Personal Excellence
- Effective in communication, demonstrates professionalism at all times, and has an accurate picture of self
- Strengthening the Team
- Demonstrates high performance standards and effectively collaborates with the team, demonstrates a sense of ownership over assigned deliverables, and shows a high degree of motivation toward achieving individual and team goals
- Drive for Results
- Applies financial discipline and a good business sense, supports change, and makes high quality and timely decisions
- Required:
- BS or equivalent in a technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project, program and/or Engineering functional management
- Experience running projects using Agile methods and/or SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
- Proven interaction skills with individual contributors and management within the engineering organization as well as stakeholders outside of R&D
- Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external partners
- Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Some travel, domestic or international, may be required
- Preferred or Desired:
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and principles. Agile scrum master certification is highly preferred
- Use of agile development tools such as JIRA
- Experience in managing projects involving external collaborators in, potentially, different time zones or countries is highly preferred
- Industry experience and knowledge of medical device and regulatory standards highly preferred
- Experience transforming cultures and processes to agile
- Indoor Environment: The position takes place indoors, providing a comfortable and climate-controlled workspace
- Sedentary Work: This role involves extended periods of sitting and working at a desk, requiring good ergonomic practices
- Computer Usage: Proficiency with computers, including software applications and communication tools, is essential for tasks and collaboration
- Minimal Physical Strain: While physical demands are generally low, occasional light lifting and moving of objects might be required
- Structured Schedule: This position usually follows regular business hours, promoting a consistent and predictable work routine