Sparksoft
Agile Coach
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Job Description
- Req#: 1061587
The Agile Coach will be responsible for establishing disciplined, effective agile teams which embrace and exhibit the agile mindset, by instructing the team or teams in agile principles and best practices.
Responsibilities:
• Effectively leveraging and combining different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports scaled agile values and principles.
• Guiding teams on the first principle of Agile Coaching to deliver working software and services products.
• Offers credible guidance to begin pipeline and team process, structure work, create value streams, and start / growth of scaling activities.
• Develops collaborative working relationships with multiple levels of managers, and steering committees with a focus on scaling agile within an organization or line of business.
• Helps leaders understand associated continuous delivery implications and the structure required to sufficiently support the software.
• Fosters maturation of agile mindset by asking powerful questions focusing on scaled program planning, scrum-of-scrums, identification of cross-program dependencies, scaled release planning, empirical data for decision models, and ultimate delivery of work efforts.
• Objectively informs/assists leaders in a non-biased manner to consider highly complex and long-term implications of transformation to self-governing teams; uses systems view in facilitating impediment removal at the team / program / value stream level.
• Provides strategic thought leadership during engagements on approaches to overcome impediments to accelerated delivery; skillfully facilitates conflict resolution with and between teams.
• Fosters strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress.
• This resource shall be experienced launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs’), working in diverse environments (waterfall and agile), hybrid and transformation projects, preferably in a government setting.
• Participate in all Scrum ceremonies such as Program Increment Planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
About the company
Sparksoft Corporation is a 8(a) certified, women owned minority business, CMMI Maturity Level 3, qualified federal contractor.
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