• Drives outcomes by facilitating agile ceremonies to maintain the discipline
• Represents the team at Scrum of Scrum ceremonies, and reports impediments requiring escalation
• Captures team level agile metrics for continuous team improvement
• Enables the team to make work visible to each other / stakeholders, and facilitates stakeholder engagement and reviews
• Provides a clear cross-team / cross-platform and 3rd party interaction model
• Ensures dependencies (across team, upstream / downstream) are understood, and required cross Team delivery is aligned and escalates unresolved dependencies as required
• Has expertise in the use of Enterprise Agile tool stack, and a working knowledge of the tools required to support the Software Engineering Lifecycle
• Ensures all impediments to the teams’ progress are cleared and the team can focus on their work
• Manages risks, and ensures mitigations are identified and driven to resolution
• Builds own knowledge of the product / application(s) the Team delivers to support the Product Owner with Backlog Management
• Works with the Product Owner and Team to ensure the Product Backlog is “Ready” for the next Sprint (meets Definition of Ready)
• Builds trust within the Team and Stakeholders, by collaborating on shared goals and creating a “Safe-To-Fail” resilient Team culture
• Responsible for making sure the team lives by the values, principles and practices of agile
• Coaching the team to employ agile best practices and ensures all tools and methods are in place for teams' success
• Coaches the team for high performance creating a collaborative environment, and building a continuous improvement mindset within the team
• Protects the team to maintain focus on value delivery, reducing waste, preventing over committing and/or complacency, and ensuring space for innovation
• Ensures the Teams successes and failures are celebrated
• Actively seeks and participates in a variety of Learning Opportunities such as Communities of Practice, Conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and community
