Scaled Scrum Master

Scrums of Scrum Master - Job summary

Scrum of Scrum Masters are key leadership positions in a global organization and part of the Agile Excellence Chapter.

They play a key role when Agile at Scale is required.

Scrum of Scrum Master:

- guide the Team of Squads focusing on creating high value releases

- partner with Product Owners to ensure strategy and execution alignment

- work with all the different squad Scrum Masters to synchronize and coordinate the work of the Team of Squads

- are key facilitators and primarily responsible for facilitation of Team of Squads rituals & key events

- drive continuous improvement by coaching Team of Squads and Squad members in Agile methodologies to maximize efficiency and self-improvement, and drive change management.

- identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to Team of Squads obstacles

- master Agile processes and fine tune them to the Team of Squads needs (e.g., mixing Scrum & Kanban to manage maintenance & development) while providing tools, methodologies (Inc.

Visual management) and relevant KPIs/dashboards to accelerate Team of Squads delivery.

The Scrum of Scrum Master may be one of the team's Scrum Masters or a person specifically dedicated to this role.

Scrums of Scrum Master - Job's responsibilities

Enable execution in alignment with the strategy and backlog of a Team of Squads (ToS) (e.g., product / platform / sub-system etc.)

- Work with Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment of the backlog of a Team of Squads

- Guide Team of squads on priorities and scope

- Help Team of squads focus on creating high value releases

- Ensure adherence to guidelines and best practices recommended by the Agile Excellence Chapter

- Assist with decision-making by facilitating feature estimation by Team of Squads

- Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis

- Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks

- Highlight and follow the adherence to guardrails at Team of Squads level and alert Product Owners

- Maintain a high-level overview of key milestones & interdependencies of the Team of Squads (such as but not limited to EP/KP...) more than the limited view of the increments and iterations

- Provide visibility on predictability trend over the current iteration planning

- Ensure the Team of Squads tracks external commitments

- Ensure homogeneous end to end backlog structure across the Team of Squads (EPICs, capabilities, user stories, ...)

Identify and manage interdependencies.

- Map interfaces between Teams of Squads

- Ensure synchronization / map architecture between Squads (products, bricks, integration, sub-assy) of the same or different leagues

- Facilitate the governance and Team of Squads rituals across Squads to foster synchronization (weekly/monthly)

- Support the squad's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other squads

- Assist teams in delivering value on ti...