SCRUM MASTER L1

About the Role: Scrum Master (Level 1)

As a certified Scrum Master, you will be instrumental in guiding and facilitating a Scrum team towards achieving sprint goals and deliverables. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the effective implementation and adherence to Scrum principles, acting as a shield for the development team, fostering self-management, promoting cross-team collaboration, and maintaining focus on project tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for meeting Sprint objectives and commitments alongside the scrum team.
• Own and actively resolve team impediments.
• Support the Product Owner in adopting the Scrum process, ensuring their availability and engagement.
• Assist the Product Owner in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories, and establishing Acceptance Criteria.
• Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement, and all planning ceremonies.
• Ensure adherence to Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD), and Acceptance Criteria.
• Manage MoSCoW adherence for the Sprint Backlog at the sprint level.
• Ensure the correct implementation of Agile processes.
• Protect the team from external interference.
• Facilitate technical assistance and promote clear communication within the team.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings across teams and highlight impediments.
• Provide feedback on team member performance to the Agile Line Manager and Agile Program Leader.
• Facilitate all Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, Retrospective) and ensure proper adoption.
• Ensure the updating of all Scrum artifacts and the ALM tool (client or Wipro) on a daily basis.
• Update key Scrum metrics into Wipro's internal tool sprint-by-sprint and analyze these metrics for corrective actions.
• Develop competency improvement and cross-skilling plans for the team, aiming for at least 50% multiskilling and reviewing monthly for score improvement.
• Help the team achieve stable velocity within 6-8 sprints (allowing for 10% variation).
• Train the team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum / XP / Kanban).
• Assist in the adoption of engineering practices such as ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, and Refactoring.
• Record and own retrospective actions.
• Participate in community of practice initiatives.
• Provide inputs to the Line Manager for internal quality forums (QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.).