Description
- Facilitate core Agile events and lightweight cross team syncs; maintain sprint goal clarity.
- Make Agile “feel useful” via energetic, varied, participatory ceremonies (not rote compliance).
- Track and drive resolution of impediments (environment, integration, data, approvals) across platforms.
- Coordinate cross team and cross platform dependencies (batch windows vs deployment timing, integration points).
- Maintain visible radiators: sprint goals, impediment log, experiment tracker, simple metrics (goal attainment %, carryover, blocker aging).
- Coach Product Owners / BAs and tech leads on prioritization, slicing, and readiness.
- Drive 1–2 small improvement experiments per team per sprint; follow through to closure.
- Foster psychological safety, inclusive participation, and sustainable pace.
Requirements
- 5+ years Scrum Master / Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams).
- Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, produce communication for all levels of the organization.
- Proficient with VersionOne / Agility (or comparable tool) for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight rollup reporting.
- Proven ability to keep ceremonies purposeful, timeboxed, and engaging (planning, daily, refinement, review, retro).
- Demonstrated success by reducing carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without adding heavy process.
- Ability to coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP).
- Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project ends dates can be projected.
- Manage over and under talkers in ceremonies.
- Ability to schedule, track, and manage meetings.