HR Scrum Master Hiring Project

Background Your team has just been brought into this project due to your knowledge of Agile Project Management. Centennial College is the sponsor and customer that the Product Owner will represent. Centennial College is a leader in Agile project education so it is not surprising they are practising Agile in the capital projects used to further the Centennial College strategic plan.

Examples of capital projects include:

Adding capacity to the online learning infrastructure

Adding technologies to physical classrooms such as SMART boards

Adding high-resolution cameras and digital screens for remote students to 'attend' a class

There are many more, these are a few examples of Business needs Due to such exciting projects, there is a need to hire Scrum Masters(SM) to mentor Scrum Teams in the various capital projects.

Centennial College wants to find and hire at least 20 experienced Scrum Masters and has initiated a project to make a number of deliverables that will be used in the hiring process to ensure the best Scrum Masters get hired. The best Scrum Master is not just based on experience but will include criteria such as academic excellence, attitude, motivation, and demonstrated community involvement.

Many PMGT Centennial students are excited about this job opportunity. References must be provided. This is not a software development project! Agile planning can be used for a variety of projects and in a variety of industries.

Agile Project - Description used for Part 1 & Part2

Page 2nd of 3 Expected SM Hiring Project Deliverables The sponsor knows that you the Product Owner on your team has a lot more experience and may choose to change the list of deliverables - add new deliverables, delete deliverables below, or keep them as is. Suggested sprints are provided below, but you can adjust these in your Product Backlog, and therefore Sprint Backlog. You are not creating these deliverables, you will be making a proposal and an Agile Plan

1. SM Hiring Project Deliverables

1.1 Job Description (Sprint 1)

1.1.1 Job Description Sections

1.1.1.1 Skills

1.1.1.2 Job Experience (does not have to be Agile)

1.1.1.3 Exemplary notes

1.1.1.3.1 Community Involvement

1.1.1.3.2 Attitude

1.1.1.3.3 Motivation

1.1.2 Job Description Layout

1.1.3 Online Posting Sites List

1.2 Interview questions (Sprint 2)

1.2.1 Questionnaire Design

1.2.2 Question Categories

1.2.3 Questions List (per category)

1.2.4 Pilot questions

1.3 Criteria to SHORTLIST the Candidates (Sprint 3)

1.3.1 Criteria Categories

1.3.2 Criteria list (per category)

1.3.3 Form Prototype

1.4 Final Interview (not fully defined)

1.4.1 Questions

1.4.2 Evaluation Template

1.5 Criteria to Select the Best candidates (Sprint 3)

1.5.1 Hard skills

1.5.2 Soft skills PMGT 708 Agile Project - Description used for Part 1 & Part2

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1.5.3 Comparison matrix (Multi-Criteria Decision Matrix) Other deliverables (there may be more!) Interview Schedule Advertising Promotion Selection Team Hiring Onboarding References must be provided.