Job Description

Sprint Management:

• Act as lead team spokesperson on delivery related items with responsibility for communicating the story of the sprint including delivery stats overall trends etc.
• Maintain accurate and projected capacity plan at all times.
• Ensure appropriate backlog refinement activities are taking place to maintain at least 2 sprints worth of refined stories at all times( working with the aligned Business Analyst PdM)
• Ensure Epics/Features are reflected accurately for a specific piece of work so that status tracking can be done accurately.
• Facilitate specific agile ceremonies:
  • Team Demos
  • Retros
  • Daily Standups
  • Dependency Huddle
  • Sprint Planning Meetings
  • Etc.
• Capture track and remove team blockers escalating as needed.
• Capture track and manage funnel and/or initiative specific RAID (risk agreement issue decision) items. Escalate as needed.

Note: initiatives that have Project/Program Managers assigned may track their RAID items differently.

• Capture track and coordinate dependencies across all funnel related work items (aside from those being managed by a specific Project/Program Manager) in advance of sprints actual start.
• Update directly or ensure maintenance by others of Jira and Confluence data at all times ensuring accuracy of data leveraged within the Scrum master dashboard.
• Leverage the Scrum master dashboard metrics for decision making activities presenting the information to others as required. Continue to provide feedback and ideas on improving the dashboard and driving a factbased approach to decision making.
• Maintain initiative specific timelines and report initiative level status updates as appropriate (aside from those items being managed by a specific Project/Program Manager).
• Ensure communication occurs with all key stakeholders when sprints are defined (i.e sprint plans are set).
• With partner Scrum Masters maintain master sprint calendar.
• Manage and maintain the Dependency Huddle and associated before during and after the meetings as needed.
• Ensure all funnel specific quarterly planning activities are handled within a timely manner and in a way that ensures the teams are able to develop represent and finalize their plans during the QPR cycle.

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