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Scrum Master

Scrum Master • Hybrid • Full-time South Africa Pretoria, South Africa

Scrum Master role acting as guardian of the Scrum Team, responsible for resolving issues with and controlling Scrum processes, including planning, tracking, reporting, and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Responsibilities

  • Train, coach, and guide internal and external teams in agile practices
  • Facilitate all Scrum-related ceremonies
  • Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Facilitate planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews with demos, and retrospectives
  • Take responsibility for team impediments and their resolution
  • Encourage the team to deliver on their commitments
  • Escalate delivery issues and risks
  • Measure and track project performance using appropriate tools and metrics
  • Project management and coordination in close collaboration with the Product Owner
  • Prepare monthly tracking reports for senior management and other stakeholders
  • Develop training material

Requirements

  • Certified SCRUMMaster® Certification
  • Tertiary Qualification
  • Experience in a Scrum Master role
  • Familiarity with software development
  • Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
  • Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Kanban, XP)
  • Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
  • Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
  • Outstanding organizational skills

Nice to have

  • 3+ years' experience as a Scrum Master in an agile development environment
  • Jira, Confluence
  • Azure Boards (Azure DevOps)
  • Scrum reporting and rituals experience
  • Agile project management experience

Soft skills

Commitment to getting things doneContinuous learning and knowledge sharingCulture of mutual respect and collaborationCustomer-focused approachTeam spirit and supportivenessServant leadership attitude

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