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Agile Coach IIIRichfield, MN Need Local (Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA, San Diego, CA) Best Buy:: 24400-1Tell us about your department:Agile and product practices team. We have 35 coaches supporting 200 teams within D&T with product and agile principles and practices. We help teams with everything from product vision to product planning to product delivery.Project Description:This candidate will support a product team within D&T in the Subscriptions area. Candidate will need to help the subscriptions team while they are undergoing a major replatforming effort. We need to help identify opportunities for agility. In addition, the ideal candidate can help with:• Optimization for Flow• Organization around Value• Outcomes-Based Planning• Team and Product level Objectives and Key Results• Optimizing product delivery• Stakeholder alignmentPosition Summary/Job Description:Responsible for helping leaders & teams learn and adopt Agile principles and practices in the context of their specific product(s). The coach provides feedback on the Agile Team’s current practice and helps them improve. Coaches have experience in applying Agile in a range of contexts, organizations and industry types. Education/Experience: 5 to 7 years experience as an Agile coach. Skills and Competencies: Experience being an agile coach of multiple high-functioning agile teams, familiarity with multiple "flavors" of agile, including both process and engineering practices, pragmatic balance between "agile theory" and in-the-trenches decision-making on practices, strong facilitation skills and strong listening skills.Major Job Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for fostering a common development culture across the platform, spotting common problem and solution patterns which multiple teams can apply and helping teams learn from each other's experience. In addition to overall development practices, this coach must help leaders and teams understand Outcomes and Objectives & Key Results and how to apply those concepts to our planning and delivery approaches. Works with multiple teams intermittently (e.g. PM Team, Arch Team, Delivery Teams, Leadership Team), facilitates team sessions (e.g. charter, manifesto, retro), enabling all team members to participate fully as players, provides an outsider's perspective; reflects it back to each team constructively, facilitates cross-team communication and collaboration, promotes growth and maintenance of team process and dynamics, fosters a common culture across all the platform teams.What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?• 5-7 years of experience as an agile & product coach• Facilitation skills• Knowledge of software development and digital development practices• Agile Coaching experience• Scrum Master Experience• Experience in matrixed environment• Digital product experience• Knowledge of outcomes-based planning• Experience with Objectives and Key Results What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?• Consulting experience with a digital products agency• Experience helping teams identify impediments to flow• Change management experiencePrescreening Questions: Must be submitted on resume, no exceptions!1. Do you have experience with teams that are new to agile? Tell us about how you led them to new ways of working. (answer should be yes – candidates should be able to explain how they worked with and trained teams on new ways of working)2. Can you provide examples of how you have helped teams adopt Objectives and Key Results as a goal setting framework? (Answer must include examples)3. Please provide examples of how you have helped teams identify impediments to flow and how you helped those teams resolve those impediments (Answer must include examples.)4. How do you help teams organize around value?5. Do you have agile coaching experience within a large matrixed organization? (answer should be yes)Interview Process Overview:Phone screenPanelFinal selection
- ID: #22952603
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State: Minnesota
Richfield
55423
Richfield
USA
- City: Richfield
- Salary: Depends on Experience
- Job type: Contract
- Showed: 2021-11-18
- Deadline: 2022-01-14
- Category: Et cetera