Job #: 2042
Pay Rate: Not Specified
Job type: contractor
Location: Washington, DC
Job Description
12+ years of seasoned experience as an Agile Coach with good expertise in Safe Agile. Responsibilities include:
- Initiate the planning and scope within an Agile framework.
- Prepare for sprint planning meetings.
- Run sprint retrospective meetings.
- Help teammates stay motivated and cheerful.
- Inspire the team, provide tools, and promote personal growth.
- Distribute information on the Agile process to all team members early on.
- Teach necessary process steps during the project's lifespan.
- Assist in the development of project plans.
- Identify probable project pitfalls.
- Respond to colleagues' questions.
- Recognize and diagnose process problems.
- Coach Agile Product Owners to achieve corporate value and project vision.
- Create user stories to assist Product Managers.
- Empower Product Owners to make tactical decisions and create strategic connections with other business members.
- Mentor Scrum Masters who want to become coaches.
- Assist Scrum Masters with meeting preparation, including pre-planning, scheduling, daily scrums, and reviews.
- Train managers in the applications of Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Educate managers on dealing with cultural shifts caused by the project.
- Develop an agile mindset for all team members, viewing challenges as opportunities for growth and change.
- Support agile-based processes by implementing governing policies.
- Recognize relevant metrics to define the measurement system.
- Implement changes to ease into new ways of working.
- Expose dysfunctions by applying system thinking.
- Counsel and evaluate agile frameworks.
- Think of new ways to form contracts with customers.
Additional Responsibilities
- Oversee quality assurance processes, ensuring adherence to coding standards, implementation of best practices, and perform value creation and KM activities.
- Ensure process improvement and compliance, participate in technical design discussions, and review technical documents.
- Create project plans and keep track of schedules for on-time delivery as per defined quality standards.
- Work closely with the development team and on-site engineers to understand technical requirements and address technical issues.
- Identify and flag potential risks and issues that may impact project timelines or quality, develop mitigation strategies or contingency plans, and provide regular project updates to key stakeholders.