Scrum Master / Project Manager Hybrid
Remote
Our Scrum Master / Project Manager:
- Manage parallel project in MS Project Plan with all tasks and dependencies identified and
- critical path established
- Understand team resource roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to ensure proper task allocation and workload balance
- Ensure all change requests are registered in Azure DevOps (ADO) as features with change request #
- Support Business Analyst (BA) to approve/reject/pause new change requests in Change Advisory Board and set ADO state accordingly (analysing/closed/paused)
- Tag change requests in ADO based on priority rules and sort the priority accordingly
- Lead BA and team leads to breakdown all new change requests into user stories with each less than 8 points
- Facilitate scope and requirements clarification between BA and team leads, revise user stories for complex features/user stories if needed
- Assign features to estimated go live iteration per story points or LoB deadline
- Assign user stories to iterations according to feature deadline and story points
- Conduct backlog refinement to make sure all team understand the feature/user stories
- Re-assign feature/user story priorities and iterations per refinement
- Identify list of features/user stories for next iteration 2 week before iteration starts
- Identify tasks needed to ensure all features/user stories are ready per Definition of Ready 1
- week before iteration starts
- Ensure team completes tasks needed to make all user stories ready
- Lock down list of features/user stories for next iteration 3 days before Iteration Planning
- Breakdown user stories into tasks before Iteration Planning 1 day before Iteration Planning
- Conduct Iteration Planning - refine tasks, assign resources per feature priority, finalize all task assignment, balance work load
- Conduct daily standup, update status
- Ensure planning of all features with estimated go live date
- Ensure release note is sent on the same day after each iteration is completed
- Conduct retrospective at the end of each iteration
- Ensure 80% of all planned tasks in an iteration are completed initially and reach 90% goal in 2 months
- Coach resources to update ADO daily so actual load/progress can be updated correctly
- Coach team members individually not to provide status update but just simple standard scrum answers during daily standup
- Coach team members to handle emergency change requests and prioritization of work and
- resources
- Ensure at least 1 feature is deployed to production in every iteration
- Ensure 80% of resources are properly allocated on the day iteration planning session is completed
Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- Must be an expert in waterfall project management methodology for multi-million dollar projects
- Must be an expert in using Azure DevOps for scrum planning and execution
- Must have 3-5 years development experiences in ETL/DB/integration
- Expert in identifying root causes and resolutions of impediments in scrum planning to achieve iteration goals
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in managing scrum for a team of 15 resources onshore and off-shore
- Ability to manage multiple projects/teams concurrently and independently
- Skilled in working with each resource individually to remove their impediments
- Minimum 5 years of scrum master experiences in both new projects and production support
- environments
Got Questions?
Feel free to contact Blake!
Feel free to contact Blake!
