Location: Cape Town
Description:
Summary
We at KRS are seeking an exceptionally talented Scrum Master who will provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the development of our software applications. The Scrum Master will be dedicated to multiple Scrum teams.
The successful candidate will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference. We need an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Role and Responsibilities
Qualifications and Requirements
About KRS:
Established in 1987, Khanyisa Real Systems is one of the leading providers of innovative desktop and distributed systems to the South African market. KRS has offices in Cape Town (Rondebosch) and Pretoria. We have approximately 50 IT professionals on our staff, from Project Managers and Business Analysts to Web and Desktop Developers.
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Description:
Summary
We at KRS are seeking an exceptionally talented Scrum Master who will provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the development of our software applications. The Scrum Master will be dedicated to multiple Scrum teams.
The successful candidate will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference. We need an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.
Role and Responsibilities
- Maintain agile based SDLC while abiding by necessary standards, tools and best practices in a clearly documented form.
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Maintain process documentation
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
- Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
- Support the project leads as necessary
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the teams to self-organize
- Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible
- Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially billable
- Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that has been developed to create a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters
- Adapting project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout pilot projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master (non-negotiable)
- Must have active experience in this role in an Agile software development environment (non-negotiable)
- Bachelor\‘s degree or combination of relevant education and experience
- Excellent team player and team builder
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic and timeline sensitive work environment
- Multiple years of experience working with an agile methodology
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and with other department personnel in a very dynamic and timeline sensitive work environment
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
- Must be \“self-motivated\” as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions
- Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear performance standards, resolve performance issues, keep team engaged and on task
- Results Driven (Prioritizing, Taking Initiative, Taking Ownership) Team Leadership (Coaching Others, Dealing with Stress, Demonstrating Teamwork, Influencing Others, Interacting with Others, Maintaining Composure, Motivating Others, Providing Direction and Leadership)
About KRS:
Established in 1987, Khanyisa Real Systems is one of the leading providers of innovative desktop and distributed systems to the South African market. KRS has offices in Cape Town (Rondebosch) and Pretoria. We have approximately 50 IT professionals on our staff, from Project Managers and Business Analysts to Web and Desktop Developers.
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