Job Description
Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals to fill the above named position that has arisen at Xarani (Pvt) Limited.
Duties and Responsibilities
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Facilitating team building with the aim of achieving better creativity and improving the efficiency of the development team. • Managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in agile methodology. • Organising and facilitating meetings such as daily stand-up meetings, retrospective meetings, sprint planning meetings; demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process. • Assisting product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and ready for the next sprint. • Promoting a collaborative environment that encourages agreeableness, trust, experimentation, creativity and innovation. • Coordinating with teams to identify issues, risks and tradeoffs to enable quality decisions. • Managing day to day interactions with the agile teams ensuring Time, Cost and Quality criteria are met. • Using visual means to foster clear communication between delivery teams and various stakeholder groups. • Teaching Agile practices that enable them to achieve short cycle time and improve product quality
Qualifications and Experience
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor's Degree in Business IT or Computer Science or a related study, or equivalent experience. • Minimum - Certificate of Proficiency in Agile Delivery and Transformation course is an added advantage. • At least 2 years of experience in Agile using either Kanban, Scrum or eXtreme Programming (XP) • History of balancing cross functional relationships with agile teams • Experience in consulting or implementing Agile processes in Legacy application environment.
COMPETENCE AND SKILLS
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environment. • Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical skills. • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory rules and practices. • Knowledge about Agile techniques like; user stories, continuous integration and testing. • Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc. • Ability to follow highly technical discussions and absorb technical documentation. • Ability to take a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping. • Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions • Initiative analysis and reporting through product and iteration burn-up charts, velocity and quality monitoring, and product release roadmap • Ability to build successful delivery teams and understand team styles and how people work together. • Ability to drive teams and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are to send their applications and CVs via e-mail to human.resources@fbc.co.zw by no later
than 22 June, 2021 clearly marked:
SCRUM MASTER: Xarani (Pvt) Limited
