Agile Coach

Agile Coach (10 Openings)

Multiple Locations – Minnetonka/Eden Prairie, MN; Basking Ridge, NJ; Hartford, CT; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Chicago, IL

6 Months CTH

Job Description

As an Agile Practitioner you will be responsible for ensuring Agile Frameworks are understood and enacted. Agile Practitioners do this by ensuring that the team and organization adhere to the values of the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles therein. You are a servant leader. You help employees and stakeholders understand and enact empirical product development. You are a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for the team, organization, and enterprise. You are not defined or bounded by your title, but instead focus on delivering value. You may at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including: Scrum Master, Team Coach, and Enterprise Coach. You seek to continuously improve your own skills, the effectiveness of your team, and the organization’s understanding of Agile. You measure progress using learning milestones. You support the five elements of a learning organization: personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. You adhere to the five Scrum values: focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect.

Requirements:
2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach or other Agile Role (e.g. Product Owner)

1+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple team projects

Growth Mindset

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, or Agile Coach

2+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple team projects

Agile Certification(s)

Healthcare Experience

Graduate Degree

Competencies:
As an Agile Practitioner, you already have many of the skills listed below, and will continue to develop and expand your repertoire:

Agile Frameworks:
Crystal Clear

Extreme Programming

Kanban

Dynamic Systems Development

Feature-Driven Development

Lean

Lean Software Development

Scrum

Agile Frameworks for Scaling:
Crystal

Disciplined Agile

Large-Scale Scrum

Nexus

Scaled Agile Framework

Scrum@Scale

Organizational Change Leadership:
ADKAR

Contingency Theory

Communication Strategies

Lewin 3-Step Model

Kotter 8-Step Change Process

McKinsey 7S Model

Non-Violent Communication

Open Space Design

Organizational Design

Queueing Theory

Systems Thinking & Modeling

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Satir Model

The Theory of Constraints

Product Development:
A/B Testing

Backlog Prioritization

Business & Lean UX Canvas

Innovation Games

Minimal Marketable Product

Minimal Viable Product

Minimalist Design

Story Mapping

Supply Chain Management

The 9S Approach

User Journey

User, Buyer and Extreme Personas

Value Stream Mapping

Product Marketing:
Distribution Channels

Exciters & Delighters

Market Requirements

Market Segments

Points of Parity, Points of Difference

Product & Service Catalogs

Product Taxonomy

Finance:
Beyond Budgeting

Cost of Delay

Relative Sizing

Total Cost of Ownership

Weighted-Shortest Job First

Architecture:
Building Blocks

Decoupled Architectures

Emergent Design

Microservices

Modular Development

Service Oriented Architecture

DevOps:
Acceptance TDD

Automated Tests

Behavior Driven Development

Configuration as Code

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Integration

Database Change Automation

Domain Specific Language

Feature Toggles

Orchestration Between Items

Real-Time Metrics, Reporting

Scripted Environments

Specification by Example

Test Driven Development