Description
Serve as a servant-leader for Agile teams by facilitating Scrum events, removing impediments, and coaching Agile practices. Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to align backlogs and sprint goals with business outcomes. Promote transparency, adaptive planning, and continuous improvement to deliver high-quality increments on schedule.
- • Onboard new team members and support team staffing discussions.
- • Surface capacity constraints and resource needs to leadership.
- • Ensure effective use of Agile tools and maintain team boards.
- • Encourage engineering best practices and collaboration with QA/DevOps to meet quality standards.
- • Collect and share insights from reviews and retrospectives, driving actionable follow-ups.
- • Coordinate with vendors or partners to resolve tooling or dependency issues.
- • Align team delivery with compliance, security, and organizational standards.
- • Facilitate Scrum events, including daily scrums, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- • Remove impediments by collaborating with team members, stakeholders, and external partners.
- • Coach the team and organization on Scrum and Agile principles and practices.
- • Partner with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy, prioritized product backlog.
- • Track sprint progress using burndown/burnup charts, cumulative flow, and other metrics.
- • Promote and uphold the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
- • Enable team self-organization and continuous improvement.
- • Facilitate backlog refinement and estimation using techniques such as story points.
- • Coordinate cross-team dependencies and participate in Scrum of Scrums.
- • Shield the team from scope creep and distractions to protect sprint goals.
- • Maintain transparent communication via information radiators and stakeholder updates.
- • Identify and mitigate risks within sprints and releases.
- • Support release and roadmap planning with the Product Owner and stakeholders.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
