Context
Our client started to implement Lean 6 years ago with Application Development and Maintenance (Business Analyst and IT) and some projects in the business (outside IT) with the Scrum framework. Now, new Agile initiatives are popping up a bit everywhere in the company. From prototyping in their incubator to long-run teams acting in very big products critical for the business and keep the light on. Their Agile Chapter mission is to support internal teams in their cultural change toward a continuous improvement.
Theydeeply trust that Agility will support the Digital transformation needed to embrace the Energy Transition.
More or less 60 FTE are dedicated to the support of the teams.
The consultant will support two teams. They aim for stable teams, so they try to find with the consultant what are the teams suit the consultant the most in order to commit on at least one year support without changing teams.
Responsibilities
The Scrum Master helps individuals to adopt the right mindset and behaviors, the teams to embrace continuous improvement and the organization to truly collaborate with the Agile teams:
- Soft skills over hard skills
- Facilitate over solving
- Adapt to the need over doing by the book
- Working team over working product
Team up with the existing Agile Chapter team:
- Main mission: integrate two teams and enables their culture.
- Two days a month equivalent: participate to our Agile Chapter team events (scrum events, agile clinic, strategy brainstorm, community of practice, offsites, etc.).
- Punctually: help the coaches on workshop/training co-facilitation.
Profile
- Team and individual focused attitude
- Know, own and apply, also for himself, the Agile mindset (value and principles)
- Able to provide a positive and constructive feedback for improvement
- Ability to work fully independently & plan Scrum activities without supervision
- Proven work experience as Scrum Master
- At least 3 years
- At least has been part of 2-3 different teams as a Scrum Master
- In a different context than IT: plus
- For more than one company: big plus
- Able to train Scrum, Kanban, agile and others techniques
- Mastery of several Agile project/product management approaches (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) to be flexible depending on the team needs
- Team virtual and physical facilitation skills & focusing on creating the right environment for the team
- Strong interest in innovation and eager to experiment new techniques
- Knowledge of Design Thinking Process and related methods and tools (nice to have)
- Knowledge of UX design/development frameworks (nice to have)
- Fluent in English
- Any of those languages is a plus: German, French and Dutch.
We use the pronoun « they » or « the candidate » wherever possible to include all individuals when talking about candidates, regardless of their gender identity. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect, regardless of their gender identity.
