American Cyber Systems - Draper, UT
posted 4 months ago
The Senior Scrum Master has the primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning, and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean/Agile mindset. This role involves adopting and continuously improving practices within the team's context, guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. As a servant-leader, the Senior Scrum Master plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and collaborating with other Lean/Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale. In this position, the Senior Scrum Master will facilitate the contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, which includes daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings. Additionally, they will facilitate the adoption of Lean Thinking, focusing on visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method. The role also requires participation in scaled events, such as cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt sessions. The Senior Scrum Master is expected to foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication while encouraging an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset. They will sustain and promote the usage of information radiators for the teams and the broader organization, collect and share transparent team metrics, and recommend new metrics for the team's context. Furthermore, they will prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team, guiding feature and story-level refinement to the Definition of "Ready" in preparation for upcoming sprints. This role requires the ability to engage the organization to remove impediments to the team's performance by working closely with stakeholders, including product owners/managers and leadership. The Senior Scrum Master will also support communication of delivery progress and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders, coach product owners/managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement, and facilitate cross-team orchestration. They will work with the team to co-create and refine team working agreements, definitions of "ready," and definitions of "done," while encouraging brainstorming, creative thinking, and open minds within the team. Ultimately, the Senior Scrum Master will coach the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement, creating a fun, open, and learning environment.