Required Skills & Competencies:

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  3+ years
  of proven experience
  identifying a scrum team’s gaps in the scrum framework and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on scrum values, agile manifesto values, and principles
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  Demonstrated evidence of ability to champion adherence to the consistent application of the scrum framework including 3 roles; 5 events; 3 artifacts; and 2 standards for artifact transparency being done and ready
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  Proven experience in coaching the product owner in some of the product backlog management techniques for ex: agile user stories with acceptance criteria and breaking them down into smaller tasks to achieve a high degree of transparency
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  Demonstrated ability to teach, coach, inspire and motivate people to change their values and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like executive sponsors, program/project managers, and line managers) to become servant leaders and to empower people who use the scrum framework
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  Proven experience to create transparency using information radiators for example:  helping teams create velocity tracking and graphs (e.g., Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown) using either agile project management software (e.g., JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Trello) or advanced Microsoft Excel skills so that the teams can monitor the progress themselves
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  Excellent verbal communication skills in conflict resolution and negotiation
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  Proven experience in influencing and facilitating Key discussions