Are you passionate about helping software development teams collaborate and deliver? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for a ScrumMaster to work in the Seattle area.
This role serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments, and communicates with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues. The ideal candidate is experienced with both Scrum and traditional project management practices.
Responsibilities
Support the product development process:
- Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Maintain process documentation.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.
Support the Product Owner:
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
Support the product team:
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Empower the team to self-organize.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
- Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
- A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
- Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
Optional
- Experience in the telecommunications industry
Personal Characteristics
- Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
- Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
- Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
- Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
- Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.
As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?
When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company — “we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.
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