Scrum Master

• Facilitate Agile Practices

  : Guide the development team and stakeholders in understanding and implementing Agile principles and Scrum practices, ensuring effective collaboration and communication throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support Team Collaboration:

   Encourage and support the team in contributing to shared knowledge repositories, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

• Risk Management

  : Assist the team in identifying and managing risks, facilitating discussions to mitigate technical and project-related challenges.

• Documentation Standards

  : Promote and uphold documentation standards across the project lifecycle, ensuring clarity and consistency in process flows and technical specifications.

• Facilitate Problem Solving

  : Support the team in resolving issues and impediments that arise during the sprint, facilitating structured problem-solving sessions to ensure timely resolution.

• Stakeholder Communication

  : Maintain proactive communication with business stakeholders, process controllers, and management, ensuring transparency and alignment on project progress and challenges.

• Coordinate Testing Efforts

  : Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure comprehensive test procedures and scenarios are documented and executed, facilitating regression testing to prevent adverse impacts on systems.

• Continuous Improvement:

  Encourage the use of continuous improvement techniques, leveraging insights from test and learn activities to identify opportunities for enhancing processes and exploring new solutions.

Jira Practices

• Sprint Planning:

   Use Jira to facilitate sprint planning sessions, ensuring that the team selects appropriate user stories based on priority and capacity.

• Backlog Management:

   Maintain and prioritize the product backlog in Jira, ensuring that user stories are well-defined and ready for development.

• Velocity Tracking:

   Monitor team velocity using Jira reports to help forecast future sprints and improve planning accuracy.

• Burndown Charts:

  Utilize Jira's burndown charts to track progress within the sprint, identifying any deviations from planned work and addressing them promptly.

• Issue Tracking:

   Ensure all tasks, bugs, and impediments are logged and tracked in Jira, facilitating transparency and accountability.

• Retrospective Facilitation

  : Use Jira to gather feedback and insights during retrospectives, helping the team identify areas for improvement and implement actionable change.