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- Provide support for development of a sustainable Enterprise Agile Framework.
- Identify and coach internal Agile champions, in order to remove reliance on external mentors.
- Ensure Agile metrics are being tracked, monitor them for indications of current or potential problems, and help the team find solutions to those problems.
- Help resolve impediments that prevent agile teams from completing sprint commitments.
- Assist in Agile Release Planning; provide Program Manager guidance in creating artifacts; capture team capacity hours for the planned upcoming release and for each sprint therein; facilitate team breakout sessions with an eye on process and related best practices; provide coaching where needed; help update Release/Program Plan with Features and Dependencies; facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint reviews and retrospectives (capture retrospective results with an eye on process and practice improvement; provide coaching where needed
- Multiple (5+) engagements standing up multiple teams to operate utilizing Agile Project Management and Software Development Practices
- Extended track record of delivering team training in a manner than ensures knowledge transfer
- Specialized skill set in one of the following areas: Technical, Product Management, Project Management or User Experience
- Track record of resolving impediments that exist outside of the team environment - this might be working with line managers to prepare the technical environment for teams, or align team structure to ensure team success (e.g. collaborating with Enterprise Architecture group to on-board/off-board Enterprise Architects into a team for the first few sprints
- Strong understanding and ability to articulate the business value of specific Agile Practices
- Strong facilitation and diplomatic skills with the ability to read an organization and bring the right people into the team at the right time to get impediments resolved
- Played multiple roles on an Agile team
- Strong Scrum Master skills
Ensure that Sprint Planning artifacts are created and captured, e.g., Sprint Backlog, Sprint Goals, etc. and participate in Scrum of Scrums to communicate and help resolve team impediments and roadblocks.
Help resolve impediments that prevent agile teams from completing sprint commitments
Train development team members in Agile practices, facilitate and enable roles and responsibilities appropriate for teams that accommodate Agile practices; facilitate release and sprint planning, review work within individual sprints and coordinate retrospective and sprint demos.
Assist key business users (product owners) with feature and story backlog creation and grooming ensuring cross-functional coordination (business analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
Coach the teams on the Agile practices to elevate agile skills, coach and mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners and System Teams in the use of Agile practices.
Provide tool coaching, develop and facilitate effective metrics. (Rally Preferred)
Work with Quality Assurance representatives to introduce automated testing into the process.
