As a Scrum Lead, support and guide product teams specializing in Content Management and Content Delivery within the enterprise CMS. This role will also be responsible for fostering collaborative environments and coordinating cross-functional teams and structures, enabling us to prioritize and deliver on critical enterprise initiatives, including the Content Transformation Program.
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and practices.
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define clear and achievable goals, prioritize the product backlog, and ensure that the team is focused on delivering maximum value.
- Remove impediments and obstacles that hinder the team’s progress, fostering a productive and collaborative environment to ensure smooth and efficient sprint execution.
- Monitor and report on product and project progress, using Agile metrics and tools to track performance, identify areas for improvement, and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
- Coach and mentor team members on Agile methodologies, promoting continuous improvement, and facilitating knowledge sharing to enhance team performance and Agile maturity.
Mayo Clinic’s Scrum Leader will work in the Center for Digital Health, with the purpose of extending our agile expertise and helping deliver digital solutions and products to consumers, patients, and providers to improve their health journey. The Scrum Leader facilities workflows in a scrum environment, ensuring that members of the team follow through on their respective duties and responsibilities.
- Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
- Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
- Collaborates with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering and Experience Design partners to ensure successful deliver
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
- Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
- Works with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support the product teams.
- Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
- Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Leaders to grow within the role.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Bachelor’s degree or high school diploma and 4+ years relevant experience required.
- Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Strong, demonstrated knowledge of Scrum and understanding of the software development life cycle.
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
- Strong interpersonal, networking, collaboration skills and cultural awareness
- Experience navigating transformation in highly regulated industries is a plus.
This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship/ we will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position.Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.
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