MaxVal - Agile Coach/Scrum Master

About MaxVal.

MaxVal started as an IP services company in 2004, with a keen focus on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and continuous improvement through metrics-based processes.

Our focus on these core values led to the tech-enablement of our offerings even before this buzzword became an industry standard.

Over the years, MaxVal developed many internal applications to increase our quality and efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

As these systems grew and became more sophisticated, we have productized them and offered them to our clients.

Today, MaxVal serves over 600 clients across the full IP life cycle with the industrys leading products and services.

Our 700 plus employees represent the most IP and tech-savvy individuals in the industry.

" At MaxVal, we do the right things and innovate ceaselessly as a winning team to achieve customer success and employee success.

Responsibilities

• Be an Agile champion and Drive scrum and agile excellence across the team.
• Conduct sprint cadence meetings:
• Standups: Facilitate daily standups (or the daily scrum) as needed.
• Iteration/sprint planning meetings: Protect the team from over-committing and scope creep.
• Aid in estimation and sub-task creation.
• Sprint reviews: Participate in the meeting and capture feedback.
• Retrospectives: Note areas for improvement and action items for future sprints.
• Eliminate external blockers and manage internal roadblocks through process or workflow improvements.
• Provide regular analysis of burndown charts and other portfolio planning tools to understand what gets built and at what cadence.
• Work as the administrator of the scrum board.
• Ensure that cards are up to date and Jira software is working well.
• Maintain and provide the relevant data for status and progress whenever management requests for it.
• The overall status: progress, and health of products.
• Status of milestones and deliverables across products.
• Product risks and progress on mitigating these risks.
• Operational efficiency and product performance.
• Quality metrics.
• Resource utilization and forecasting.
• Communicate with management upfront about any impact on the schedule.
• Be extremely data-driven and drive/track program execution and delivery excellence.
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience with a bachelors degree.
• Advanced understanding of IT Project Management principles and techniques e.g Agile Software Development SCRUM/Kanban/Scaled Agile.
• 5+ Years of experience with JIRA, Sprint Planning, Estimation, Release Planning.
• Have depth and width of decision-making maturity.
• Be able to gain trust & respect of engineering, dependent teams and stakeholders to deliver results.
• Ability to manage and influence team members without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment; work with minimal supervision while delivering on action items in a timely fashion.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
  
  

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