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Junior Scrum Master

Chelmsford, MA
Why join this team:
Our PMO is a passionate group of servant leaders supporting high-performing teams.  We are committed to quality, continuously learning, and relentlessly improving.  Our work directly impacts the company’s goals and mission.  Want to make a difference?  Join us!

The impact you’ll have:

  • Facilitate and moderate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo, sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meetings
  • Remove obstacles to team and sprint success
  • Encourage self-organization by facilitating the appropriate delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members
  • Coordinate across co-dependent scrum teams in multi-scrum team environment
  • Utilize and improve usage of JIRA and Confluence, as a tool to monitor and manage sprint success

Who we’re looking for:

  • A deep understanding and the ability to apply both the theoretical and practical aspects of agile development
  • Proven experience with Agile software development methodologies
  • Experience working closely with Stakeholders to improve project predictably and delivery success
  • Ability to help product teams generate product backlog and make them ready for the next sprint
  • Experience effectively identifying and driving resolution on deliverable dependencies with other teams
  • At least 1 year of experience using JIRA to track and manage Agile development, or experience using tools similar to the Atlassian suite of products
  • Experience with a variety of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.)
  • Someone who has the ability to:
    • Assess the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
    • Influence and lead development, quality, and product professionals
    • Partner closely with product to set the vision and execute the sprint plan
    • Foster and maintain a collaborative team dynamic
    • Solve problems and think critically
    • Plan and organize (and re-organize) in an environment of shifting priorities
    • Communicate clearly, both by speaking directly and writing concisely
    • Negotiate and manage conflict
    • Learn quickly and adapt to the environment
    • Proactively identify blockers and help the team look ahead for potential risks and recommend mitigations
    • Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example
  • A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a minimum of 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master in more than one organization, for multiple teams simultaneously
  • A Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a computer science, information technology, or an equally technical discipline; or equivalent work experience

We’d also love to see, though not required:

  • Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
Experience in education technology

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