Agile Development Mentor

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  • Bellevue, Washington
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    Title: Agile Development Mentor Location: Seattle Area Openings: Multiple Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire Serve as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices. Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.*

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBellevue, Washington

    Description

    Title: Agile Development MentorLocation: Seattle AreaOpenings: MultipleType: Contract or Contract-to-Hire
    • Serve as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices
    • Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.*
      • Change Management
      • Scaling Agile; release planning and dependency management
      • Sprint events: planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives
      • Impediment identification and removal
      • Persona development
      • Story mapping; road mapping and planning
      • Backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization
      • Story sizing and task estimation
      • Team building and communication
      • Tracking and using velocity, burndown and burnup
    • Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments
    • Provide training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams (i.e., individual and workshops)
    • Serve as an advisor to teams; leading by example and challenging the status quo
    • Perform ongoing assessments of the teams' Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions
    • Cultivate Communities of Practice
    • Partner with Scrum Masters to identify and support opportunities to increase team maturity
    • Partner with Product Owners to ensure vision, roadmap and personas are well-defined and understood
    • Guide scrum masters on becoming better at facilitation and focusing teams on completing tasks
    • Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices
    • Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation
    • Foster a trusting environment focused on servant leadership and continuous improvement
    • Draft and maintain training materials, collect and collate feedback from training sessions
    • Ensure Agile adherence and consistency while maintaining teams' abilities to be self- directed
    Qualifications
    • BA/BS or equivalent work experience required
    • Expert practitioner of Scrum and Lean Start Up
    • Excellent communication, facilitation and relationship building skills
    • Proven success coaching teams to adopt Agile methodologies
    • Minimum of two (2) years of real-world Scrum coaching experience, guiding at least two (2) organizations through varied challenges of Scrum adoption (5 years ideal)
    • Minimum of two (2) years as a practicing Scrum Master
    • Diverse change management experience across multiple organizations, teams, products, environments and technologies
    • Ability to facilitate discussion at all levels of the organization to resolve conflicts
    • Experience with approaches for scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
    • Stays current in the Agile space as exemplified by ongoing education in Agile frameworks training, conference attendance, user group participation and self-study
    • Availability for some travel
    • Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Rally, Atlassian tools -- JIRA, Confluence)
    • Working knowledge of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
    • Coaching experience at a Fortune 500 (large size) organization highly desirable
    • Scrum Coach Certification (CSC) preferred

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