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Form of workJob Description
The Agile Coach/Agile Trainer is responsible for the ensuring that the Agile development practices are followed and adjusted as required. The Agile Coach/Agile Trainer works with the team or organization to establish and adapt to Agile practices that help to ensure high quality results and a high level of customer satisfaction Coaches may be required to work either at the team level, working with teams to ensure that delivery teams within agencies are adopting agile and performing effectively. They will partner with the client and stakeholders to develop a formalized Agile Training Roadmap and Agile Transformation Roadmap, differentiating strategic versus tactical resources. This includes providing a detailed example of an Agile Governance model that follows industry best practices for State Agencies and the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.
Duties include but may not be limited to:
- Provide consulting, training, and other services as required to support leadership and employee development, focused to include, but not be limited to, the following areas:
- Agile Transformation, as a Service
- Agile Approaches, such as Agile Scrum and Kanban
- Scrum Agile Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Agile Funding Models
- Agile Visual/Written Process Documentation
- Organizational Change Management, as a Service
- Agile Basics: Backlogs, Sprint, Ceremonies, Epics, User Stories, Product and Project RoadMap, etc.
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Lexicon
- Agile Principles and Industry Best Practices
- Provide a comprehensive Agile training and coaching program which includes Agile principles, Agile Teams, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and reenforcing industry best practices, for all levels of State employees
- Provide related Organizational Change Management consulting services, including analysis, design, development, implementation, coaching and evaluation
- Provide onsite classroom and virtual instruction and may be asked to provide web-based or other learning options
- Must demonstrate experience designing, implementing, and leading agile coaching engagements for mid to executive level professionals, and emerging leaders
- Coach Portfolio, Program, and Team levels with implementing Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Support portfolio and program management processes and stakeholders to improve Lean-Agile product management workflow
- Help Epic owners with capability and feature decomposition, developing acceptance criteria and testable specifications, and provide analysis of common vs. unique capabilities and features across services and benefit types
- Lead release planning activities, including developing capability maps, feature maps, and story maps that support rapid releases of minimum viable products and incremental delivery of enhancements
- Lead retrospectives and process improvement efforts to improve overall throughput and decrease lead time from prioritization to delivery/release
- Support senior decision-makers with plans, reports, metrics, analyses, and recommendations
- Lead the planning for agile transformation and coaching activities, including schedules and coaching implementation plans that incorporate the Coaches’ approach of guidance, instruction, and direction provided to ensure implementation and sustainment of the Agile approach, and monthly status reports
- Deliver workshops and training as required on topics such as Lean, Agile, DevSecOps, Lean UX, Design Thinking, and related topics
- Review current business practices, principles and processes and conduct business gap analysis on programs to define current ‘as-is’ business practices and outline path toward ‘to-be’ agile practices to be formulated as recommendations for government implementation
- Assist program personnel in applying and adapting agile processes throughout the programs, identify and report risks and issues that constrain programs and agile teams from effectively and quickly delivering business value, and lead coaching meetings with branch and division managers to support business improvement practices within the organization
RequirementsMinimum Qualifications/Experience:
- Five (5) or more years of agile training experience with specialized experience in organizational change management and implementation of agile training in government, non-profit or private industry.
- Training/Coaching experience with both small group (less than 15) and large group (more than 15) class sizes.
- Five (5) years of Agile Transformation experience.
- 10+ years of IT experience and/or complex systems development
- 7+ years’ experience using Agile principles, practices, and methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe on technical projects
- 5+ years implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- 5+ years delivering Agile and/or SAFe certification training
- 5+ years of progressive accomplishment managing and implementing large, complex information systems.
- 5+ years in an agile delivery leadership, management, or coaching role
- Proven leadership ability in dynamic agile environment working with executive and senior-level stakeholders
- Impeccable professionalism and strong communication skills
- Humble and results-oriented servant leader with team-first mentality who follows through on commitments
- Background in process improvement, business process reengineering, and
- Comfortable leading and facilitating backlog refinement, release planning, retrospective, demos, and project status meetings
- Experience planning strategic initiatives including developing operating models, plans, associated communications and graphics, and related supporting documentation
- Comfortable consulting with and coaching senior management and executives
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree Required
Required Certifications:
- SAFe Certifications Required
- SPC Strongly Preferred
- Scrum-certified by Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org preferred
Other:
- Must be US Citizen
- Willingness to be on-site daily in Lansing, MI
