Agile Master (1425)
| Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date Posted | July 20, 2022 |
| Category |
Management
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
We are looking for an Agile Master min 8 years experience for a long term Global Project.
Remote/10%Office based:- Centurion/Midrand/Pretoria
Certification as Scrum Master:-
- Professional Scrum Master III�?�
- Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master® (scrumailliance.org)
- Certified SAFe® Program Consultant (scaledagile.com)
- Certified SAFe® Agilisit (scaledagile.com)
- Scale Professional Scrum�?� (scrum.org)
- Certified SAFe Release Train engineer (scaledagile.com)
Role:
- Provides active and regular mentorship to other Agile Masters
- Supports multiple Feature Teams in complex Products / Sub-products up to Domain level
- Provides key insights into the evolution of Agile KPIs in complex Agile Teams to improve efficiencies at an organisational level
- Take the Role as Test Manager in Testing phases
- Contributes significant value in relevant CoPs through active leadership
- Asist line manager with shift rosters regarding operations and office time cycles
- Guides the team and organisation on the use and application of Agile/Scrum methodologies and practices
- Aligns within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding outcomes
- Collaborates with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations
- This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assesses the agile maturity of the team and organisation and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects
- Assists with internal and external communication and improving transparency.
- Demonstrates the status / performance of the team as key element
- Supports the Product Owner with grooming processes and product backlog management
- Assists with project- and team coordination tasks when required
Skills and Experience:
Skills and experience required:
- Previous exposure to a Supply Chain function (either being in a Supply chain function or Agile Master for a team that services a Supply Chain Function)
- Ability to manage a technical team using agile methodologies
- Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g. numerous Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
- Excellent knowledge and experience in applying Agile scaled models (e.g. SAFe, Nexus, LeSS)
- Knowledge of BMW, ITPM, AWM (Advantageous)
- Excellent proficiency in the Agile Tool Chain (JIRA, Confluence, X-Ray, BitBucket)
