Job Title: Agile Coach
Location: Dallas, TX 75202
Duration: 12+ Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Location: Dallas, TX will begin remote however upon restriction lifting return to office.
Required Skills:
Agile Coach:
Digital Transformations (waterfall -> Agile):
Lean Agile (not just SAFe):
Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details *
5 years of agile coaching experience
Experience with Digital Transformations (waterfall -> Agile)
Experience w/ Lean Agile (not just SAFe)
Experience supporting many teams at once
Strong verbal & written communication skills
Ability to form a coaching strategy specific to each teams' needs.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Driving Lean Agile principles, values, behaviors and methodologies throughout the organization. Assisting teams with planning and execution of ceremonies.
Partnering with the Scrum Masters/TBAs and Solution Train Engineers (STEs) to ensure cross-team coordination and servant leadership.
Encouraging adoption of a truly agile mindset, including ownership, self-management, empowerment and servant leadership.
Performing Agility assessment and providing feedback on future areas of focus for team improvement;
Drive Agile Team Maturity, Perform Metrics Analysis & Driving Improvement based on Trends.
Coaching scrum team members, lean agile roles and responsibilities.
Pushing comfort levels of team members to achieve results.
Coaching and Continuous Development of Product & Delivery in Agile Practices & Reinforcing Training & Process.
Provide Inputs to Leadership on Changes for Continuous Improvements.
Facilitate Improvement Initiatives with Retrospectives with Action Plans.
Attend systems and solution demos.
1) Collaborate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
2) interact with various levels of the organization and provide support for multiple scrum teams as an Uber Scrum Master (unlike the Scrum Master where the primary focus is on the team).
3) Work closely on a day-to-day basis with their Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, and Enterprise Architects to understand features and drive release train delivery.
4) Collaborate with Portfolio Managers to understand and shape the definition of portfolio programs, assess progress/health, and report metrics.
5) Champion and foster project change management processes and procedures. 6) Lead increment planning sessions to establish scope and build release plans.
7) drive agile team maturity, perform metrics analysis, and drive improvement based on trends,
8) Coach and continuous development of product and delivery in Agile Practices, reinforce training and process.
9) manage risks and impediments (management & resolution).
10) Create One Team Culture to unify business & tech development.
11) Provide input to leadership on changes for continuous improvements.
12) Continuously apply Lean Agile Thinking.
13) Support the design, development, and utilization of tools.
14) Facilitate improvement initiatives with retrospectives with Action Plans.
15) Attend systems and solution demos.