INACTIVE
Full-Time
Agile Transformation Lead
R01536033
Posted on 4/18/2024
Senior
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Required Skills
Agile
Management
JIRA
SCRUM
Development Operations (DevOps)
Requirements
- Certified in at least one agile scaling framework - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc.
- Certified in Agile Coaching - ICAgile, Scrum Alliance, or an equivalent
- Certified in Scrum and / or Kanban - CSM, SAFe-SM, PSP, or an equivalent
- Experience playing the role of an Agile Coach and Scrum Master for at least 3-5 years each
- Have been part of or led Agile / Transformation Office and has been a key member or led agile transformations @Scale
- Have been part of led Agile CoEs and / or CoPs
- Extensive experience in SDLC, IT project / program / delivery management
- Experience in PO and Product Management related agile practices
- Extensive usage of Agile related metrics at team, program and product levels
- Strong hand-on usage of ALM tools across teams and program / product management and collaboration
- PPM tools experience will be an added advantage
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written
- Can engage with leadership, CXOs, senior management, their agile coaches and senior agile practitioners
- Represent the organization in internal and external agile forums
- Ability to demonstrate thought leadership will be an added advantage
- Exhibits and can coach on lean-agile leadership; embraces agile values and principles
- Demonstrates strong retrospection, inspection and adaptation behaviour
- Demonstrates Project to Product mindset and ways-of-working
Responsibilities
- Lead Agile adoption, enablement, transformation, @Scale (multiple teams, programs, large solutions) size of 150/200+
- Create / re-configure team topologies and organization for agile ways-of-working alignment
- Conduct agile maturity assessments, and continually review and ensure teams improvement can be measured
- Coach Agile Teams, SMs, POs, Program / Product Managers on Lean-Agile culture, mindset, principles, practices and ways-of-working
- Drive (or part of Transformation team) org level Transformation & Change, with Leadership / Senior Management
- Facilitate team and program (@Scale) level Agile events / ceremonies (including PI planning and ART events), and maintain artifacts (Program and Team Boards)
- Implement agile scaling frameworks - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, DAD, Nexus, etc., or a contextualized framework as needed
- Build high performance teams, including conflict management, team dysfunctions, etc.
- Lead / facilitate agile planning, estimation and sizing at team and program levels
- Be part of Value Stream related activities - Value Stream identification, mapping, analysis, etc.
- Conduct agile training and certification; workshops, bootcamps etc. for varied topics
- Lead / be part of solution team for POVs, RFPs and RFXs; for agile dev. services solutions
- Co-facilitate (with SMEs) tech excellence related to DevOps, Continuous Delivery, CI-CD, Testing (automation) and Tech pipelines
- Mentor and guide usage of Agile related metrics at team, program and product levels; boards (Scrum, Kanban, Program) and create contextualized reports / dashboards; drive agile related governance
- Create Business Cases, work on Lean budgeting / costing / finance, and funding Value Stream practices at the program and portfolio level
- Use ALM tools across teams and program / product management and collaboration, such as - ADO Boards, Jira, Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility (VersionOne), Rally, Teams, digital Whiteboards, MS Office/360, etc.
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