Scrum Master
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Work with Agile teams across SysOps, Engineering / QA, Product Owners, and company-wide stakeholders.• Grow Agile practices, environment, relationships and mindset.• Establish and continuously improve existing Scrum & Kanban frameworks, utilizing other Agile practices as appropriate.• Help teams work at a sustainable pace to produce consistent and predictable outcomes• Facilitate all Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (Estimation, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Reviews, and Retrospectives.)• Coach teams in self-organization and cross-functionality, helping them optimize workflow to reduce idle work and increase velocity while leveraging “failure” to achieve higher performance. • Work closely with Product Owners on developing and grooming product backlogs to keep their focus on delivering the best business value.• Coach Product Owners and teams on writing and appropriately sizing user stories.• Create safe environment for teams to foster true collaboration and innovation, guiding them toward functioning as a single unit instead of a mere collection of individuals.• Help with conflict navigation and remove impediments to teams’ progress.