Sr Agile Coach
Job #: 23-02718
Pay Rate: Not Specified
Job type: contractor
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Pay Rate: Not Specified
Job type: contractor
Location: ,
• Showcase and enhance your agile coach competencies of People coaching, mentoring, training, and facilitation for fostering learning & adaptive culture
• Fostering the "Being Agile” culture from Doing Agile
• Designing or contributing to the Organization's Agile Transformation Vision, Roadmap, Strategy and Execution based on SAFe or other scaling frameworks
• Coaching, mentoring, and training business leaders to evolve and support needed in standing up high performing Agile Portfolio, alignment of business value streams and setup of Solution/Agile Release Trains to drive business objectives and results.
• Proactively analyze and make recommendations forimprovements to existing agile organizational practices andpatterns at the Portfolio, Program, and team level, identify ways to improve Organization's agile maturity
• Develop and update orientation and training content to enhance agile practices and mindset
• Maintain best practices, tools, templates, and other content to support agile implementation and communities of practice
• Share best practices and insightsfor across the organization to remove impediments to theimplementation of Agile
• Mentoring Agile Release Train Engineers on best practices around ART Backlog, Facilitating PI ceremonies and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Development and execution support of Agile transformation strategies within different Portfolio and/or Programs.
• Providing upskilling recommendations for RTEs, Scrum Masters, POPM and other relevant agile roles based on the suitable methods, practices, and agile frameworks.
• Guidance on running Community of Practices/Enablement and chapters to drive the learning and innovation culture
Knowledge, Competencies and Skills
• SAFe Strategist & executor - Experience in executing SAFe transformations, Setup LACE, Running LPM and OKR workshops
• Product Thinker – Continuously work with LACE to drive Project to Product Mindset and FLOW of Value
• Role Model of Growth mindset & Being Agile than just doing agile in the servant leadership style. From project managers to executives, everyone you work with will benefit from your hands-on coaching style and depth of knowledge about core Agile theory and methodology, including complex concepts like product management, scaling, conflict resolution and forecasting – all within a tangible, comprehensive plan
• Facilitation of I&A, Lean Portfolio Canvas workshop, VSM Mapping, Problem-solving and backlog designing workshops to identify potential solutions to opportunities and problems identified at the Portfolio and Program level. Passionate problem solver and negotiator who succeeds in ambiguous situations
• Discipline expert in Scrum, Kanban, Lean, TDD/XP, BDD and scaling these practices.
• Work requires seasoned knowledge and a command of Agile methods and practical implementation of these practices.
• Agile methodology training & Certifications – Agile Coach Certification from Industry recognized bodies (e.g.,Scrum Alliance, Scrm.Org, ICAgile, Kanban University, PMI etc.)
• Strong communication skills with experience in delivering programs, training, workshopsthat influence
• Strategic Thinker: strong strategic and critical thinker with ability to delve into unique challenges and find creative solutions
• Collaboration & fun: inclusive and collaborative work style while creating fun and excitement in our work Integrity and trust: do what's right and operate with transparency and openness. We love Gamification in the work we do & have our in-house frameworks designed to amplify the learning culture
Work Experience
• Seasoned Coach with skills to transform culture & focus on human centered transformation
• CertifiedSPC with 15+ years of overall experience in being part of or managing large programs and/or Product lifecycle
• 5+ years of related experience being an Agile Coach at Enterprise level in executive coaching for large scale agile transformations
• 2+years of related experience being a Program level coach and/or RTE
• 5+ years of people management experience (with Certified Scrum Master in SAFe or CSM or CSPO/PSPO/POPM) in agile programs
• Experience and understanding of Design Thinking, DEVSECOPS, SRE, Change management practices etc.
• Experience and Coaching using HSD, Clean Language, Spiral Dynamics, Systemic coaching Agenda Shift, etc. for people transformation
• Experience in APM Tools like Jira, Jira Align, Rally, Confluence etc. and facilitation tools like Miro, Mural etc. is must
• Experience coaching in distributed Agile delivery environments and facilitate remote workshops
• Certification from ICAgile, PMI, ScrumAlliance on Agile Coaching will be a great addition
• Fostering the "Being Agile” culture from Doing Agile
• Designing or contributing to the Organization's Agile Transformation Vision, Roadmap, Strategy and Execution based on SAFe or other scaling frameworks
• Coaching, mentoring, and training business leaders to evolve and support needed in standing up high performing Agile Portfolio, alignment of business value streams and setup of Solution/Agile Release Trains to drive business objectives and results.
• Proactively analyze and make recommendations forimprovements to existing agile organizational practices andpatterns at the Portfolio, Program, and team level, identify ways to improve Organization's agile maturity
• Develop and update orientation and training content to enhance agile practices and mindset
• Maintain best practices, tools, templates, and other content to support agile implementation and communities of practice
• Share best practices and insightsfor across the organization to remove impediments to theimplementation of Agile
• Mentoring Agile Release Train Engineers on best practices around ART Backlog, Facilitating PI ceremonies and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Development and execution support of Agile transformation strategies within different Portfolio and/or Programs.
• Providing upskilling recommendations for RTEs, Scrum Masters, POPM and other relevant agile roles based on the suitable methods, practices, and agile frameworks.
• Guidance on running Community of Practices/Enablement and chapters to drive the learning and innovation culture
Knowledge, Competencies and Skills
• SAFe Strategist & executor - Experience in executing SAFe transformations, Setup LACE, Running LPM and OKR workshops
• Product Thinker – Continuously work with LACE to drive Project to Product Mindset and FLOW of Value
• Role Model of Growth mindset & Being Agile than just doing agile in the servant leadership style. From project managers to executives, everyone you work with will benefit from your hands-on coaching style and depth of knowledge about core Agile theory and methodology, including complex concepts like product management, scaling, conflict resolution and forecasting – all within a tangible, comprehensive plan
• Facilitation of I&A, Lean Portfolio Canvas workshop, VSM Mapping, Problem-solving and backlog designing workshops to identify potential solutions to opportunities and problems identified at the Portfolio and Program level. Passionate problem solver and negotiator who succeeds in ambiguous situations
• Discipline expert in Scrum, Kanban, Lean, TDD/XP, BDD and scaling these practices.
• Work requires seasoned knowledge and a command of Agile methods and practical implementation of these practices.
• Agile methodology training & Certifications – Agile Coach Certification from Industry recognized bodies (e.g.,Scrum Alliance, Scrm.Org, ICAgile, Kanban University, PMI etc.)
• Strong communication skills with experience in delivering programs, training, workshopsthat influence
• Strategic Thinker: strong strategic and critical thinker with ability to delve into unique challenges and find creative solutions
• Collaboration & fun: inclusive and collaborative work style while creating fun and excitement in our work Integrity and trust: do what's right and operate with transparency and openness. We love Gamification in the work we do & have our in-house frameworks designed to amplify the learning culture
Work Experience
• Seasoned Coach with skills to transform culture & focus on human centered transformation
• CertifiedSPC with 15+ years of overall experience in being part of or managing large programs and/or Product lifecycle
• 5+ years of related experience being an Agile Coach at Enterprise level in executive coaching for large scale agile transformations
• 2+years of related experience being a Program level coach and/or RTE
• 5+ years of people management experience (with Certified Scrum Master in SAFe or CSM or CSPO/PSPO/POPM) in agile programs
• Experience and understanding of Design Thinking, DEVSECOPS, SRE, Change management practices etc.
• Experience and Coaching using HSD, Clean Language, Spiral Dynamics, Systemic coaching Agenda Shift, etc. for people transformation
• Experience in APM Tools like Jira, Jira Align, Rally, Confluence etc. and facilitation tools like Miro, Mural etc. is must
• Experience coaching in distributed Agile delivery environments and facilitate remote workshops
• Certification from ICAgile, PMI, ScrumAlliance on Agile Coaching will be a great addition