Scrum Master -Detroit, MI

Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) is looking for Scrum Master for a long term contract with our direct client Position in Detroit, MI

Responsibilities 

• Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
• Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies for 1-2 teams.
• Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments
• Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements.
• Assist with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization. o Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization o Maintains risk register and escalates where needed
• Utilizes standardized tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs.
• Continuously monitors the actual cost of a project versus the budget.
• Reviews expenditures and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes. Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
• Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts.
• Utilizes the team definition of done to guide the team during their sprint commitments.
• Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
• Looks for opportunities to teach and mentor the team.
• Guides the team by providing meaningful feedback.
• Effectively facilitates retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team.
• Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
• Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.

Mandatory Skills:

Experience & Knowledge Essential

• Minimum of 3-5 years of ScrumMaster experience
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM or related certification strongly preferred
• 3+ years of information technology experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience
• 5 or more years managing projects
• Thorough understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.
• Experience with relevant business software (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, Team Foundation Server).  Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server Agile, Jira or similar tool. 
• Controls a program level view and status and uses the information in Clarity/Open Workbench to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time.
• Able to use Clarity/Open Workbench tool to determine how the intersection of multiple projects and programs impacts the department.
• Able to use the Clarity/Open Workbench tool develop departmental budgets. o Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.