STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) 1. Task and Skills (Scope of Work to be Performed) |
The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications. OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies. The State intents to secure temporary IT personnel from Contractors for job title(s) listed below: IT Staffing Resource Area: #4 Scrum Master Number of resources: #1 JOB TITLE: Scrum Master The scope of the proposed services will include the following: ● Guide and Mentor multiple teams and organization using Agile/Scrum best practices, methodologies and values. ● Assess the Scrum maturity of the teams and organization and coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization. ● Remove impediments or guide a team to remove impediments. ● Facilitate completion of work assignments, assigning, or dictating work assignments. ● Facilitate discussion, decision making, team building and conflict resolution. ● Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information; supporting product owners and project leadership to maximize return on investment (ROI) and meet the organization’s objectives. ● Support and educating the Product Owner and teams, to include, but not limited to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. ● Engage in agile delivery utilizing best agile methodology (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, etc). ● Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example. ● Facilitate all necessary team meetings in accordance with Scrum ceremonies. ● Participates in all design sessions. ● Performs or directs the performance of special tasks as assigned. Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory: ● Five (5) years experience in the Scrum Master role ● Scrum Master certification (include copy of certificate with resume) |