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COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.As directed by Executive Order 14042: Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, all current and newly hired employees, in the United States, are required to be fully vaccinated by January 18, 2022.Description: A Product Team Coach is a critical component when transforming teams of agile teams, as they not only focus on forming a high-performing agile team; they form a high-performing agile team of agile teams. They support the execution of the overall program transformation strategy, as well as the team’s delivery execution framework. A Product Team Coach helps the teams apply lean/agile principles to maximize the flow of value and ensure alignment to the organization’s goals for not one team, but a team of teams. This requires them to maintain a holistic system view and be able to switch between a micro (team-focused) and macro (product-focused) viewpoint.You will have the opportunity toform high-performing teams (e. g. autonomous and self-organizing), understand the team roles and responsibilities and coach the team on how work flows through the system.Important aspects of this position would be to:- Coach teams and management on how to apply lean/agile principles to maximize the flow of value and ensure alignment to the organization’s goals- Coach the team on the use of agile practices and tools and the execution of agile ceremonies, keeping the team focused on the iterative and incremental delivery of value- Guide teams in the execution of the delivery workflow; coach the team on how to interlock with other teams with regards to backlog items, as well as ceremonies.- Coach teams on the agile requirement approaches (e. g. Story/Feature/Epic hierarchy)Coach the team on how to define user stories (delivery teams deliver user stories)- Coach teams and management on how to use collected metrics as basis for making specific improvements and for demonstrating progress to stakeholders- Assess a team’s agile maturity and review the results with the team, coaching them on specific improvements for improving the assessment results- Guide the team in the capture of practices, policies, etc. that enable them to work more effectively and efficiently as a team- Collaborate with the Transformation Leadership Team and the Product Team in the identification and creation of the Delivery Teams that will deliver the product capabilities.- Ensure the Product Team has a common understanding of team roles and responsibilities, the overall program execution framework, the Product Team Governance Model and the team’s role in its execution.- Guide the Product Team in the execution of the product tier workflow; coach the Product Team on maintaining strategic alignment with the overall program, implementing a predictable flow of value and managing dependencies.- Coach the team on how to interlock with the Program Leadership Team and the Delivery Teams, both in terms of backlog items, as well as ceremonies.- Coach the team on how to define features and how to decompose features into user stories (product teams deliver features)- Coach the team on how to collaborate across delivery teams to ensure the right decisions are made (create a shared understanding)- Maintain the integrity of the end state transformation vision across a diverse group of teams; understand and communicate needs and requirements across teams; provide guidance, validation, and context to teams to assist with alignment to, and focus on, end state goals.This is an important role and could be a great next step in your career!Basic Qualifications:Experience in Digital Transformation and process optimizationExperience in Agile development and Agile coachingRemote team supportBackground in Software, Electrical, or Systems engineering or other related fieldDesired Skills:Certifications in Agile development and Agile coachingExperience with Software Factory at the enterprise levelExperience with backlog generation and priority sortingSoftware build tools and processesSoftware build trackingBreadth of experience in a variety of agile practices (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. )Experience using Agile Lifecycle Management tools (e. g. Jira, VersionOne, Rally, etc. )Knowledgeable of new/emerging practices and coaching techniques (attendance and participation at conferences, user groups, speaking engagements, blogging, etc. )Strong prioritization skills; ability to focus on what drives the most valueStrong communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levelsAbility to decompose features into user stories (product teams deliver features)Ability to effectively and efficiently perform the responsibilities described in the job description.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:job.QualificationsLockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.EXPERIENCE LEVEL:Experienced Professional
Full-time