Scrum Master FAQ

My FAQ's

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* Scrum Master:

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1. * Who is servant-leader? 

A Scrum Master is a servant-leader whose focus is on the needs of the team members and those they serve (the customer), 

with the goal of achieving results in line with the organization's values, principles, and business objectives.

• Experience in complete life cycle (SDLC) development of a product and Agile Scrum, TDD, Agile Software Development, Pair programming.
• Strong grip on Agile Artifacts - Product vision, backlog, road map, Release plan, Sprint backlog, Burn Down
• Strong Knowledge and experience on Agile Ceremonies – Backlog /Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective
• Strong knowledge and Experience on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Prepared Story cards, burn down charts, release plans, build release notes and completed the sprint and Product backlog defined tasks on time / as per scheduled time lines.
• Working as a Facilitator, Mentor, Quality Master, Servant Leader, Process check master for Agile Projects.
• Closely working with Product Owner, Team and all required stake holder on daily basis.
• Lead all the meetings and monitoring and Tracking the team activities, resolved impediment and conflicts.
• Generating reports based on Sprints and Release and publish to all stake holders
• Strong on agile project management tools like Version One, JIRA
• Identify project risks and raise them immediately
• Managed the project deliverable s using Scrum, SCRUM Methodology (Agile).
• Knowledgeable in project management methodologies i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures Strong on software quality aspects, risk management and stakeholder management.
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and assist them in developing IT solutions
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as individually. Also worked on team building and maintenance.
• Good experience in managing multiple projects of varying technologies.
• Ability to take completes ownership of business critical and sensitive projects.
• Experience in coordinating agile work efforts and ensure the team’s productivity is maximized and that the team leverages iterative/agile best practices to stay focus and meet their goals and commitments.
• Coordination and meeting facilitation is a part of the work, primary responsibility to help the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Teaching Scrum, implementing and supporting Scrum practices, and identifying and eliminating impediments.
• Expertise in facilitates planning, team learning in the form of reviews and retrospectives, and adaptation of the process to ensure quality of team/solutions, also ensure the tracking and reporting of daily activities.
• Experience in People Management, Stakeholder Management, Release Management, Incident Management, Project Planning, Scheduling, Estimation, Monitoring, Tracking and Implementing software development life cycle, Testing, System Support and Application Maintenance.
• Quick learner, organized, ability to work within tight deadlines and willingness to take initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, A very strong team player.

• Working as an Agile Scrum Master
• Deliver multiple scopes as per plan on time with Quality
• Working on scopes which were complex and Facilitating /conducting meetings, follow-up with different stakeholder and support them to deliver the projects on time with quality.
• Updating status reports to Managers meetings on weekly basis
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring reviews, and sprint retrospective and Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Working with Product owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown
• Help product owner understand how to create and maintain the Product Backlog
• Work with the scrum team to evolve the definition of Done
• Work with the scrum team to remove external or internal impediments to the teams progress, foster self-organization
• Conducting /Facilitating Agile Ceremonies - Daily Standup, Sprint Grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective

• Appreciations from Business team for grasping the application knowledge in short duration and taking the project towards successful release.
• Experience in coordinating agile work efforts and ensure the team’s productivity is maximized and that the team leverages iterative/agile best practices to stay focus and meet their goals and commitments.
• Coordination and meeting facilitation is a part of the work, primary responsibility to help the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Teaching Scrum, implementing and supporting Scrum practices, and identifying and eliminating impediments.
• Expertise in facilitates planning, team learning in the form of reviews and retrospectives, and adaptation of the process to ensure quality of team/solutions, also ensure the tracking and reporting of daily activities.
• Working with remote teams across the globe with different time zones. Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution, Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product. Backlog. Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible.