Individual Specialist - ScrumMaster

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Summary of the work Take ownership and drive through the delivery of digital projects utilising Agile practices, principles and frameworks ensuring an efficient process is maintained. Supporting skilled, self-organising multi-disciplined digital team to achieve commitments. Defining project needs, feeding into the programme/portfolio process. You will be core to decisions that build high performing teams. Specialist role Delivery manager Latest start date Mid October + 2 weeks Who Speclialist Work With As ScrumMaster you will be expected to provide the right level of support and education to the team for them to understand the value of why we do things. You will be competent and work closely with the Product Owner and Project Manager reporting and forecasting delivery of value at all times. What Specialists Work On Deliver projects/products using agile project management methodology/model, learning & iterating frequently Work with Product Manager defining roadmap and vision for any product Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process, prioritising work against the capacity/team capability Support the team, remove impediments, breaking down barriers Ensure team focus on delivering value with continuous flow and high quality deliverables Produce reports to stakeholders Capture, record, manage Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Assumptions Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team Participating in ScrumMaster community of practice, sharing/re-applying skills, knowledge and best practice. Facilitates all Agile events ensuring objectives are met Encourages/strives to ensure team implement eXtreme Programming engineering practices Skills & Experience • Commercial experience as a ScrumMaster • Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as SCRUM and/or KANBAN frameworks, together with XP engineering practices • Experience using TDD and/or BDD methodology in practice to drive development • Experience in delivering digital projects and products • Proven experience using agile project management methods • Proven experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity • Sound understanding of the digital landscape • Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams • End to end project lifecycle experience on a number of software development projects • Proven experience as an Agile Project Manager • Practical experience of introducing new efficient processes or concepts in the development environment • Ability to work to tight time scales in a commercially driven environment • Excellent communication and teamwork skills • Demonstrable experience of actively being a team player Nice to Haves • Continuous Integration with Hudson/Jenkins • Continuous Deployment • Experience in transitioning Prince 2 project methodology or Waterfall approach to Agile approach Work Location Meadowbank House, 153 London Road Edinburgh EH8 7 AU Working Arrangments onsite 5 days per week Security Clearance Baseline Personnel Security Standard No. of Specialists to Evaluate 9 Cultural Fit Criteria • Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers • Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 75% Cultural fit 5% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. The same specialist opportunity "Individual Specialist - ScrumMaster" appears twice on your website. Is it the same opportunity or is the requirement for this opportunity 2? There is a requirement for two Individual Specialists 2. Please could you provide contract length? This contract will be required until 31st March 2017 3. Please could you provide day rate? Registers of Scotland do not provide a maximum rate and expect suppliers to submit according to market rate. 4. Several of the specialists we have been discussing these roles with have already interviewed or are being seen this week via Harvey Nash, if these candidates are successful will these 2 roles be closed as we have seen this happen on several occasions on the DOS framework? This is a new requirement and does not relate to any previous roles. 5. The latest start date is stated as "Mid October + 2 weeks". Would a start date of Mon Nov 7th proceed to shortlisting if all other shortlisting criteria was acceptable? A start date of 7th of November would not directly exclude a candidate if they met other criteria however they cannot have guaranteed shortlisting 6. As regards to the next stage, are CVs going to be used instead of the skills and experience evidence spreadsheet to create a shortlist of 9 suppliers for interview? If so, what is the expected date when CVs will be required to be submitted? A skills and experience evidence spreadsheet will still be used as the next stage, with CV's following after the 9 suppliers have been shortlisted. Apologies as I believe a previous question answered may have caused confusion. 7. The standard duration for DOS call-off contracts is 2 years with SOWs for each period. Will this opportunity have the standard 2-year call-off contract with the first SOW to 31/3/17, or is the call-off contract going to be explicitly made to 31/3/17? Doing the latter would not allow any option for RoS to extend the specialist after 31/3/17. Apologies for the delay in responding however after clarification I can confirm the following points. This opportunity will have the standard 2 year call off contract with the first Statement Of Work to 31/03/17. It may then be reviewed by Registers of Scotland to decide on further action. 8. Is there a possibility the specialist will be required beyond 31/3/2017? Yes, this is a possibility therefore the standard 2 year call off contract will be in place for this requirement.