Agile Coach

Job Description

Requirement:

Role: Agile Coach 

Location: Detroit MI

Duration: 9 months 

Engagement Description:  

Perform coaching, training and guidance to newly formed Agile project teams (and extended team stakeholders) who may have little to no Agile experience. Additional engagement responsibilities will be to utilize ideas out of project retrospectives to support process improvement initiatives.

Top 3 Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years experience using Scrum

• Minimum 2 years experience as either Scrum Master or Product Owner 

• CSM/CSP or preferred (certified scrum master and certified scrum professional)

Required Experience:

• Must have knowledge of the Standard Agile Ceremonies: Release Planning, Grooming, Pre Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Post Stand Up, Sprint Design Session, Demo, Retrospective, Celebration

• Must have knowledge of the Standard Agile Reporting: team performance which may include: Roadmap, Release Plan, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, sprint goal, Task board, team norms, impediments, team calendar

• Experience Conducting Agile Overview Training to all stakeholders impacted 

• Experience coaching/mentoring support during project specific evaluations and roadmap execution activities beginning with the initial walk through of the set up and execution of initial Sprints/iterations 

• Experience in provide oversight, guidance, and feedback for ongoing execution of sprints/iterations upon establishment and in alignment with high-level Agile/Scrum roadmap

• Must be able to provide continuous process improvement from project retrospectives and refine elements

• Experience validating criteria for project selection, identifying success metrics that should be tracked relative to each project, analyzing the in-flight, pilot project selections against criteria and success metrics

• Ability to Identify Agile/Scrum transitional requirements for each project and areas within the Agile/Scrum methods (Project Roadmap) requiring enhancements

• Ability to collaborate with invested project teams to refine Agile/Scrum framework (structure, processes, templates, cadence, and deliverables) version which is usable (a practical / sustainable) 

• Identify Agile/Scrum tools evaluation criteria for Agile/Scrum tools (including automated testing and integration)

• Define Agile software development practices for implementation 

• Help to develop and manage the Agile Community of Excellence (Agile CoE)

• Enable cooperation among all roles and functions

• Expert in team dynamics, how to be a leader and create a community

• Hold team members accountable for behavior that is inconsistent with team norms

• Provoke thought process and ask questions

• Inspire engagement within the team

Certifications:

• Agile Scrum Master and /or Agile Coach certified  

• Scrum Alliance recognition of the certifications also required

Qualifications

Education requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required

Additional Information

Thanks & Regards
Caroline Ignetious
Caroline(dot)i(at)tekwissen(dot)com
734-384-4499