We are seeking an experienced Agile Coach to support a large federal agency in their Agile transformation. The ideal candidate should embody an Agile mindset and be passionate about empowering an Agile culture through experience coaching, guiding, and supporting executives, managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and others.
Requirements
- Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives.
- Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities.
- Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies
- Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, as well as provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations.
- Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance to refine their processes.
- Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams.
- Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting. Assist organizations to define, prioritize, and decompose requirements in Product and Program Backlogs
- Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, Assess team performance and Agile maturity, and report findings.
- Provide feedback on processes, policies, procedures, training, and tooling changes to better support the enterprise's Agile transformation.
- Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate cross-team planning workshops.
- Facilitate and coordinate cross-team grooming sessions. Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices. Prepare and/or update organization-wide Agile artifacts and methodology documentation.
- Help iterate on and provide recommendations to advance the Agile Transformation Roadmap.
- Embed an agile culture using techniques from a wide range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks.
- Ensure Agile project metrics are being tracked and monitored for indications of potential problem areas and assist teams in identifying and implementing solutions to address the problems.
- Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
