Scrum Master

. Drives outcomes by facilitating agile ceremonies to maintain the discipline

. Represents the team at Scrum of Scrum ceremonies, and reports impediments requiring escalation

. Captures team level agile metrics for continuous team improvement

. Enables the team to make work visible to each other / stakeholders, and facilitates stakeholder engagement and reviews

. Provides a clear cross-team / cross-platform and 3rd party interaction model

. Ensures dependencies (across team, upstream / downstream) are understood, and required cross Team delivery is aligned and escalates unresolved dependencies as required

. Has expertise in the use of Enterprise Agile tool stack, and a working knowledge of the tools required to support the Software Engineering Lifecycle

. Ensures all impediments to the teams progress are cleared and the team can focus on their work

. Manages risks, and ensures mitigations are identified and driven to resolution

. Builds own knowledge of the product / application(s) the Team delivers to support the Product Owner with Backlog Management

. Works with the Product Owner and Team to ensure the Product Backlog is Ready for the next Sprint (meets Definition of Ready)

. Builds trust within the Team and Stakeholders, by collaborating on shared goals and creating a Safe-To-Fail resilient Team culture

. Responsible for making sure the team lives by the values, principles and practices of agile

. Coaching the team to employ agile best practices and ensures all tools and methods are in place for teams success

. Coaches the team for high performance creating a collaborative environment, and building a continuous improvement mindset within the team

. Protects the team to maintain focus on value delivery, reducing waste, preventing over committing and/or complacency, and ensuring space for innovation

. Ensures the Teams successes and failures are celebrated

. Actively seeks and participates in a variety of Learning Opportunities such as Communities of Practice, Conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and community