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Agile Coach / Scrum Lead, CO
Seeking an Agile Coach / Scrum Lead for a full-time position with our client in Boulder.
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Job Summary: |
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Will work with Technical Delivery Teams, Product Managers/Owners, ScrumMasters, QA, and PMO to assist with ongoing deployment of Agile development practices across the organization. Will work directly with the teams to deliver training, coaching, and written documentation on Agile practices, tools, and techniques to support our goal to produce the highest quality software and the most efficient development teams possible.
Will perform in the capacity of change agent, creating an environment of continuous improvement, challenging the status quo, and developing a compelling case for change. In addition, will be responsible for constant review of performance indicators and metrics used to measure internal productivity, quality and other key areas. |
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Responsibilities: |
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Principle duties and responsibilities:
- Acts as champion and evangelist of the Agile process, to include responsibility for expanding the understanding and practice of agile principles throughout the entire organization, including software and operations teams, and possibly external customers.
- Manages an Agile initiative and keeps current on new trends in other Agile practices and technology solutions designed to deliver technology solutions.
- Collaborates directly with scrum teams to coach and guide them on the mechanics of agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.
- Delivers hands-on coaching of individual scrum teams in all aspects of scrum-daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, etc. Assists in these meetings, as needed.
- Creates, builds and delivers customized agile training and internal agile tools designed to enhance team collaboration to both internal teams and external customers.
- Exposes our technology teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the agile community to increase agility. Assists with the rollout and training of new agile teams, as needed.
- Works directly with managers and scrum teams to remove enterprise-wide systematic obstacles that block ability to achieve sustainable increases in velocity and team efficiency.
- Provides agile leadership coaching and training to ScrumMasters, Product Owners and functional managers. Facilitates general education sessions for non-development teams.
- Assists in the establishment, monitoring, and reporting of metrics and milestones for agile teams and ScrumMasters.
- Ensures cross-organizational and multiple stakeholder education, feedback, and consensus on Agile methodology.
- Applies an integrated process of planning and development strategies to ensure incremental results are delivered.
- Lead a team of ScrumMasters and provide the team coaching and mentoring.
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Minimum Qualifications: |
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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline, or combination of education and related experience.
- Certified ScrumMaster.
- 3+ years of large scale Agile coaching experience, hands-on and practical in nature.
- 7+ years project management experience in a software development environment.
- Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices, with the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization.
- Consulting and facilitation skills in leading technical teams in the adoption and improvement of agile methodologies.
- Excellent training and presentation skills.
- Ability to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Skilled in leading meetings, driving decisions, and negotiating win/win solutions.
- Strong leadership/relationship building skills, with a demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Excellent listening and communication skills (written and verbal).
- A willingness to provide instruction and mentoring.
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Coaching, training or consulting skills and experience a plus.
- Experience with diverse software technologies a plus.
- Experience leading organizational change management a plus.
BridgeView IT is a technology placement firm assisting a national network of clients identify and hire the highest-caliber IT professionals. Our management and senior recruiting specialists have successfully supported the IT marketplace for over a decade and we have grown into a world class organization with operations coast to coast. BridgeView IT’s mission is to build long-lasting relationships through successful candidate placements, to conduct business with utmost professionalism and courtesy, and to achieve rewarding business performance results. |
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