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NEXTON

Builds digital projects for large French firms

Agile Scrum Master

Project & Program ManagementPosted on Oct 14
Full-timeÎle-de-France, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Solid knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies, with the ability to apply them practically and adaptively across different teams.
  • A higher-education qualification from an engineering school or a master's degree in project management.
  • At least 5 years of experience in similar roles.
  • Ability to manage pressure associated with client priorities and deliver projects on time and to the required quality.
  • Ability to work in a team, participate in discussions, and challenge ideas respectfully.
  • Ability to reflect critically on one's own approach for the benefit of the team.
  • Curiosity and willingness to propose innovations.
  • Experience working in highly Agile environments, with autonomy and clear communication about progress.
  • Comfort with technical topics and familiarity with developers' and testers' work.
  • Ability to use JIRA, PowerBI, and Excel is listed as ideal.
  • Experience implementing automated Agile-related KPIs is desired.

Responsibilities

  • Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
  • Facilitate daily stand-ups and challenge the team on its sprint commitments.
  • Ensure the team has the conditions needed to deliver quality work from testing through production.
  • Ensure technical and functional documentation stays current and useful for knowledge sharing within and across teams and with new joiners.
  • Ensure security items are addressed regularly.
  • Support the team's autonomy in continuous deployment to test and production environments.
  • Ensure work is distributed appropriately within the team.
  • Minimize disruptions from external requests to the team's velocity.
  • Reduce key-person dependency within the team.
  • Escalate alerts to the Delivery Manager and communicate delivery progress.
  • Help the team identify priority technical topics, such as a technical roadmap, and share them with the Product Owner.
  • Anticipate team leave and adjust capacity for each sprint.
  • Ensure enough technical, functional, and operations user stories are ready before each sprint begins.
  • Identify and share relevant KPIs to support team ceremonies such as daily stand-ups and Sprint Planning.
  • Facilitate backlog-item estimation sessions and help the team become autonomous in estimation.
  • Coach the Product Owner to identify topics raised in Sprint Reviews, prioritize the backlog to maximize value, plan user stories through workshops and story mapping, communicate clearly with developers, and provide development-completion projections when needed.
  • Identify team issues and propose workshops to resolve them.
  • Help the team define concrete retrospective actions and ensure they are completed.
  • Share and monitor KPIs that support continuous team improvement.
  • Help Support teams assist clients in production by keeping documentation current and shared and providing support when production issues arise.
  • Develop the team's overall accountability and autonomy.
  • Help the team become autonomous in organizing Sprint Reviews.
  • Build and maintain effective communication between the development team and the client.
  • Act as a neutral mediator when disagreements arise and facilitate interactions within and between teams and with the client.
  • Prepare and facilitate the weekly follow-up committee with the Product Owner and IT department.
  • Help the team communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Support, Security, and Infrastructure, about its priorities and objectives.
  • Set up workshops to introduce and raise awareness of Agile practices.
  • Share internal project work and team methods with peers and other Delivery teams.
  • Participate in the factory's Agile circle.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience implementing automated KPIs related to Agile practices.

About the Company

NEXTON

Builds digital projects for large French firms

NEXTON plans and builds digital projects for large French companies and online businesses, combining digital strategy with software development and marketing. Its teams cover product management, user-experience design, agile delivery and data work, and build websites, mobile applications and customer communications. Clients pay for specialist consultants assigned to their teams or for projects delivered by NEXTON's own agency. The agency combines designers, developers and marketing specialists to handle projects from planning and interface design through development and delivery. Founded in Paris in 2011, NEXTON is headquartered there at 5-7 rue Saint-Fiacre and operates across France.

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Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2011

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