Project & program management

Hire a scrum master or product owner in Greece and Cyprus

The two hands-on seats inside a software team, filled by people who have shipped: a cadence that holds, a backlog someone owns, and acceptance that means something.

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Two roles decide whether a software team delivers week to week, and in Greece and Cyprus both are often filled by whoever was free. The scrum master runs the cadence; the product owner owns the backlog and acceptance. The engagements that come up most:

A client-side product owner for an ERP, a portal or an app a vendor is building
A backlog nobody owns, so the loudest stakeholder sets the sprint
A bank or telecoms operator with delivery spread across vendors
A cover between hires or during a long absence

The scrum masters and product owners on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from scale-ups, banks and product companies, including former business analysts and certified scrum masters who have shipped software rather than only run ceremonies.

What does a scrum master or product owner actually do?

Run the delivery cadence: planning, review and retrospective, sized to the work and kept
Remove blockers the same day, and escalate the ones above the team
Order the backlog for the business, sliced small, with acceptance criteria written down
Act as client-side product owner on a vendor build, so the vendor does not set priorities
Accept or reject work against the criteria, even when a stakeholder wants it shipped
Keep the sprint board current so stakeholders see the truth without a status report

How to choose the right scrum master or product owner

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Writes testable acceptance criteria
Can show a story they wrote whose acceptance criteria a tester could check without asking them.
Clears blockers above the team
Names a blocker outside the team they cleared the same day, and whom they went to.
Kept vendor priorities out
Has sat opposite an integrator as product owner and stopped the vendor's priorities from filling the sprint.