Expert Agile Master Project Manager – IT Gauteng at Sabenza IT

Essential Skills requirements:

• In depth knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge and or experience of SAP modules with Logistics environments
• SCRUM experience
• Facilitate collaboration between international teams
• Strong planning and organising skills
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Qualifications you would need to possess to apply:

• IT related Degree/Diploma
• Scrum Master Experience, 6+ years’ experience (certification advantageous)
• Project Management Experience in multi-vendor environments 8+ years’ experience 

Some of the duties that you would need to carry out:

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and add value to project and customers. Align within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.
• Give structure to workshops and meetings to help lead and facilitate the team’s Agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization teams/Agile, i.e. “closing the loop” and “getting things done”.
• Assessing the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency. A key part of this will be finding a way to show the current status/performance of the team.
• Document and communicate requirements for projects in execution.
• Report on project status and raise risks where applicable
• Align timelines between teams across multiple sites/locations.