The Scrum Master serves as a servant leader and coach for the Agile team, helping to ensure that the team follows Agile principles, facilitates team events like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, and removes any impediments blocking the team's progress. Proactively work with a cohort of Agile coaches, trainers, and Agile CoP’s and CoE’s to co-develop continuous process improvement initiatives to education colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
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Location
Rochester, Minnesota (Remote)
Description
Overview:
Our client is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to join our team.
Key Responsibilities
The individual will be a Scrum Master for an area practicing SAFe Agile.
The Scrum Master serves as a servant leader and coach for the Agile team, helping to ensure that the team follows Agile principles, facilitates team events like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, and removes any impediments blocking the team's progress.
They will play a role in larger, cross-team coordination.
They help integrate their team’s work into the broader Program Increment (PI) planning, which involves multiple teams working together in a synchronized manner.
They also participate in PI planning events, work with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders to coordinate dependencies and support the team in aligning with the program's goals and objectives.
Their focus extends beyond individual team dynamics to also contributing to the overall success of the Agile Release Train (ART), which is a key structure in SAFe that aligns multiple teams around a common mission.
The Agile Coach will ensure teams live the agile values and principles and can coach on industry best practices that lead to agility.
This person will work with a cohort of other Agile Coaches to develop fit for purpose models for groups and support new and existing agile teams across the client.
They will have a strong orientation toward action, and an intellectual and practitioner curiosity to explore the "what if's".
Ideally, they have already schooled themselves on the basics or advanced levels of agility, recognizing the capability goes well beyond tools.
Specific responsibilities include: Ensure team vision, goals, scope, KPI's, and the product domains are identified for the agile team.
Train teams and establishing skills that allow for the enterprise-wide adoption of business agility framework.
Educate various roles and levels of people on agile principles, provide training sessions, and teach skills the lead towards organizationwide adoption of agile methodologies.
Provide team members with feedback and coach to advance maturity.
Develop and provide training on Agile-Lean practices.
Proactively work with a cohort of Agile coaches, trainers, and Agile CoP’s and CoE’s to co-develop continuous process improvement initiatives to education colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Provide tools to help reduce waste and drive improvement.
Self-starter with Consultant Mentality - Need to be able to coach and guide.
Skills:
SAFe Agile Experience required
SAFe Scrum Master experience required
Experience with Azure DevOps preferred but not required
SAFe Scrum Master Certification or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is required. SAFe Scrum Master Certification is the preference.
Strong business acumen and advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and methodologies.
Lean-Agile methodologies, practices, and tools (i.e. Azure DevOps/Jira).
Proven knowledge of the application of Agile at scale and demonstrated ability to coach and lead the cultural and organizational change to make it work – SAFe or LeSS.
Previous experience in Product Ownership or Scrum Master
Knowledge and experience in two or more Agile or Lean frameworks – Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Extreme Programming.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree OR 4 additional years of related experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
3-5 years as an active Agile Coach.
8 years of experience on an Agile Team.
Track record within Healthcare industry supporting agile teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build relationships, influence outcomes, and to deliver effective presentations to a variety of audiences and stakeholders.
Comfortable with ambiguity and facilitating discussions to explore the best possible solutions.
The ability to lead and inspire with imagination, courage, and curiosity.
Strong business acumen and advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and methodologies.
Previous experience in Product Ownership or Scrum Master.
Knowledge and experience in two or more Agile or Lean frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Extreme Programming.
3 years of experience with Agile Management tools Jira/Azure DevOps.