Responsibilities
- Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each spring using RTC Agile Tool. This involves Story estimation and detailed tasks creation
- Must have solid experience using RTC Agile Tool to manage all aspects of SCRUM
- Work with product owners and SCRUM teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint
- Help the SCRUM team finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders.
- Ensure that team vacations and holidays are reflected in available capacity/velocity and appropriate production and other support requirements are considered while determining the actual Sprint load.
- Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings
- Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting to report progress a. If deviating from the ideal burndown then communicate teams plan/commitment to get back to the line, report impediments for escalation, identify and share risks/concerns for review at program level
- Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint – ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out
- Coordinate as needed with other PMs or technical managers the delivery of non-development components such as configurations, environments, job streams etc.
- Participate in Release retrospective (Inspect and Adapt) and cross team retrospectives (if needed)
- Ability to facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost effective manner
- Shield the SCRUM team from outside influences and interferences to ensure that the team does not get distracted and stays focused on Sprint and Release Objectives.
- Ensure that the SCUM team strives for continuous improvement by implementing action items identified during retrospectives, acquiring new skills – both technical and functional and increases velocity by getting increasingly efficient.
- Work with the team to support Product Owner and Product Manager for Feature level T-shirt size estimates
- Be proactive in identifying dependencies on other teams for each release and drive meetings to discuss various dependencies and get these accepted in acceptable timelines
- Ensures that all best practices such as – Regular JIRA updates, Appropriately sized and defined stories, Acceptance Criteria for various User Stories, Test Scripts/Execution, Release Notes preparation/communication, code refactoring and other agile engineering practices etc. are adhered to.
- Support budget aligned to resource planning.
- Provide project status via various formats
- Work with our Quality Assurance(QA) Partners to ensure defects are assigned within 24hr SLA. Drive solution of defects with dev manager/tech lead.
- Be proactive, can operate on his/her own within the test to drive business outcomes.
- Escalate issues and risks to management as see fit to ensure successful delivery of the project/program.
- Hold weekly project calls with all stake holders. Publish meeting minutes in a timely manner.
- Communications skills are a must
- Power Point – very good
- Excel – Expert
Requirements
- Scrum Master/PM with financial services domain experience preferably with Investment Products like Brokerage or IRAs or related experience
- Proficiency running in a new Agile environment
- Must have solid experience using RTC Agile Tool to manage all aspects of SCRUM
- Communications skills are a must
- Power Point – very good
- Excel – Expert
Nice to Have
- financial services domain experience preferably with Investment Products like Brokerage or IRAs or related experience
