Scrum Master Associate Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Serves as the servant leader of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule.
• Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects.
• Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
• Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
• Focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert
• Exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership and the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset.
• Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
• Facilitate the team s progress toward the goal and is constantly engaged in challenging the old norms and roles while keeping the team focused on the goals of the iteration
• Monitor and analyze key team performance metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, and cycle time to identify trends, optimizing processes and drive continuous improvement opportunities in their team s agile practices.
• Familiarity with product-centric team structures and the product operating model, with an ability to support teams aligned to customer value and product outcomes.
• Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of the current PI objectives.
• Facilitate all team ceremonies, including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, system demo, and iteration retrospective
• Communicate with Management and outside stakeholdersHelps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Agile Coach. Coaches and supports the team and those supporting the team in pragmatic, standard, best agile practices
• Work with to identify process improvement opportunities to deliver business value faster.
• Engage and develop the Change Management approach for any standard and best practices which includes but not limited to: direct communications, facilitation of training sessions and automate reporting on adoption of best practices.
• Support shared services (eg:Cigna Information Protection, Infrastructure Solutions Group) & Business Operational Readiness areas (eg Service Operations, Sales, Underwriting) mature their processes to be as lean and efficient as possible.