Scrum Master

Kanban Lead 

Description

The Kanban Lead has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of our Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding the organization to more predictable delivery. The Kanban Lead plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams.  The Kanban Lead will be the champion of Lean throughout Hive Financial Systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Backlog Management Practices

• Works with Product Managers and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices
• Mentors Product Managers and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Delivery Team Support

• Own Release Management
• Removes impediments to the team’s ability to perform
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, quality, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s degree + 2 years relevant experience  
• 2 – 4 years of working experience as a dedicated Kanban Lead, Scrum Master, etc…
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban (preferably Kanban or Lean)
• Coaches the lean-Agile mindset
• Facilitates backlog management and refinement
• Facilitates transparency of metrics, impediment removal, collaboration, and coordination
• Facilitates continuous improvement