Thursday, February 20, 2020

Job opportunity for Agile Coach - Wilmington, DE


Hello Everyone,

We are hiring


Duration: 9 Months
Location: Wilmington, DE

Job Description:        
           
Additional notes:

Key Responsibilities:

Coach Product Team on:

·         Agile practices, adoption, and values within the organization and promoting delivery of business value using Agile.
·         Practices to influence change that increases team performance at a sustainable pace.
·         Team member skills development and overall health of the product team

Guide Product Team to:

·         Define and maintain vision, business aspiration and measurements for Customer informed process transformation.
·         Develop and prioritize backlog and product roadmap (including MVP definition); teach techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
·         Correction of behavior patterns that are counter to the values and principles of Agile or the importance of providing teams with an environment for agility.
·         Teach Product Team and team to adopt Continuous Delivery practices such as Customer Obsession, Design Thinking, Story Mapping, and other Lean/Agile Modeling Techniques.

Behavioral Qualifications:

·         Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from individuals/teams and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
·         Communicative and Enthusiastic – Must be able to communicate well with teams, larger practitioner community and Agile thought leaders internally and externally. Requires high-energy to be a source for motivation/inspiration for individuals and teams looking for support and guidance.
·         Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.
·         Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
·         Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise, coach the team to resolve internally and if necessary involve management.
·         Attitude of Empowerment and Transparency – Must be able to lead teams to self-organization through empowerment and transparency.

Skills and Experience:

·         Deep knowledge of Agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean) with experience setting up agile at scale teams (i.e. - Spotify and LeSS models)
·         Coaching and Team Development – track record of facilitating high performing, self-directed teams and coaching for results at all levels in an organization.
·         Design Thinking – zero based customer journey design and customer experience implementations.
·         Demonstrated Leadership – Executing change as evidenced by having led cross LOB or functional programs or process improvement initiatives
·         Conflict Resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches. Capable of helping teams to address dysfunctions that may result from teams misinterpreting, ignoring or rejecting Agile and Lean values and principles.
·         Strong Analytical and Organization Skills to assimilate information.
·         Experienced working successfully in at-scale high-complexity environments


Role Responsibilities:

·         Work closely with central Card agile transformation team while providing Coaching to product based team members with an emphasis on business agility and product owners.
·         Required Skills/Experience:

·         Must have experience with Design Thinking, Product Owner Coaching, Story Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Release Planning, Scrum, XP, and Kanban.

Expert in the following:

·         Agile Methodology.
·         Project Task Estimation.
·         Resource Scheduling.
·         Risk and Issue Management.
·         Waterfall and Agile methods
·         Work breakdown and critical path method.
·         Stakeholder Management Critical Thinking (anticipates problems andestablishes methods to mitigateproject/program risks).
·         Benefits Management Budget/Financial Management including Business Case completion.
·         Executive communications for senior management.


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