Role: Scrum Master/ Agile Delivery Facilitator
LocatioM: Remote
Experience: 12+ Years
JD
Description: Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Facilitator
Core 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.
Key Responsibilities:
• 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.
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Engagement / Culture:
• Uses creative retros (rotating formats) and lightweight recognition of small wins.
• Introduces tasteful micro-gamification (e.g., blocker bust streaks) to energize without distracting.
• Encourages rotating spokespeople and silent ideation rounds to amplify quieter voices.
Success Indicators:
• Sprint goals achieved ≥80–85% without overtime spikes.
• Declining trend in blocker aging and repeat impediments within first 2–3 months.
• Story/task carryover trending toward <15%.
• ≥70–80% of committed retro experiments implemented on schedule.
• Positive team pulse feedback on ceremony usefulness / energy.
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