Agile Coach

28 Nov 2024

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Portfolio/Agile Coach - NO C2C

Location: Charlotte, NC.

Contract length: 12-24 months21-21419

Required Skills
  • Experience with Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability.
  • Experience with implementation and release management activities.
  • Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team.
  • Good analytic skills, flexibility and the ability to adapt to emerging technologies and tools.
  • Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.
  • Provides visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
  • Enables the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team.
  • Measures team delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities.

Desired Skills
  • Experience with Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability.
  • Experience with implementation and release management activities.
  • Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team.
  • Good analytic skills, flexibility and the ability to adapt to emerging technologies and tools.
  • Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.
  • Provides visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
  • Enables the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team.
  • Measures team delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities.

Job Description
  • Responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more Scrum teams.
  • Coordinates and facilitates Scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies for the team, providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, enabling continuous improvement within the team.
  • Ensures the impediments are resolved quickly, the team follows their agreed-to processes, and that there is a good relationship between the Product Owner and the development team.
  • Acts as an Agile Coach, promoting and coaching the Agile mindset and principles, empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential.
  • Guides and coaches one or more teams on Scrum practices, and develops their understanding of Agile principles.
  • Facilitates Scrum ceremonies i.e. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
  • In a Scaled Agile model, facilitates scaled planning for the team - e.g. Pre Planning/ Preparation, PI Planning Events - and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/ART Syncs.
  • Helps the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforces the agreements. Ensures the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog (in collaboration with the PO).

  • ID: #23568877
  • State: North Carolina Charlotte 28201 Charlotte USA
  • City: Charlotte
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-28
  • Deadline: 2022-01-08
  • Category: Et cetera