Description
About the client
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Pearson is a bold thinking company with focus on standout innovation and exploring new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology and through encouragement to surpass these boundaries — they create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Pearson is one of the world`s leading publishing companies with more than 24.000 employees operating in 70 countries across the globe.
Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do
Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.- Organizing backlog grooming sessions where we use planning poker for the story points estimations of each new Jira issue.
- Supporting the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Liaison between the scrum team and the product management.
- Forecasting number of deliverables for each sprint and reporting in the end an achievements report.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Coaching the scrum team in Agile processes.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
- Guiding the team towards self-organization and involvement into the team performance processes.
- Strive for high quality and rapid output through the use of agile software development best practices
- Keep on top of task and defect management system for assigned issues for each iteration as well as estimate and assess work priority
- Plan by understanding the details (effort, risk, priority) of remaining work committed for a release
- Plan and execute an incremental and iterative software development process
- Contribute ideas to continually improve the team’s productivity, job enjoyment, and code quality
Here is some of what you’ll need
Strong focus on customer engagement.- At least 3 years of experience as a Scrum Manager / or Agile PM in a professional services company managing the development or implementation of mobile, web applications and/or software products.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) is preferred
- Experience with agile tracking tools, like JIRA, is preferred.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all staff and management levels
- Business requirements gathering and documentation skills
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills
- Highly oriented on results. Ability to make the things happen
- Experience in managing projects in a customer-facing environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree or MSc, or equivalent relevant experience
- Fluency in English
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