Scrum Master

Job Description

Elka Games is an indie game development studio founded with the mission of delivering education through games and activities that focus on entertainment, progression, and experience. We believe games can be utilized to educate children regardless of age or ethnicity. At our core, we’re players who deeply value the social and community interactions that can create fun moments. We believe that educational games create lasting experiences and we are committed to creating that experience for others to enjoy. The scrum master is the team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use. The responsibilities of this role include: ● Clearing obstacles. ● Establishing an environment where the team can be effective. ● Interacting with product owner and development teams to understand process requirements and SLAs. ● Training and implementing scrum processes and monitor them. ● Organizing and facilitating scrum sessions. ● Following up and removing obstacles and bottlenecks affecting the project process. ● Interacting with the product owner to create, prioritize and prepare backlog lists, adjust and estimate product versions and release management. ● Assisting the development team in self-organizing and getting the functional cross feature. ● Identifying problems in the work process and provide solutions. ● Doing sprint analysis and workflow to estimate team work capacity. ● Generating all needed reports of the progress of work in each sprint and the status of the end of the sprint. ● Controlling, following up and monitoring the progress of the activities of the working groups. ● Preparing the required systemic documentation in project management. Identify and remove impediments of the production team: ● Hold and manage scrum events. ● Help the team and its members to clarify and achieve sprint. ● Scrum training helps the development team and the team focus on delivering high. quality stories on predictable and sustainable tracking. ● Facilitate daily stand-up. ● Facilitate Sprint events (planning, browsing, retrospective, cleaning). ● Study the end-of-day criteria and prepare Burn-Down and Burn-Up charts for daily stand-up. ● Update the current release schedule based on completed stories and changes made to Sprint. ● Value the speed of the team.