Agile Coach

Position: Agile Coach

Location: Cary NC/Remote

Duration: 1 Years

Phone & Skype

Immediate Interview

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Mandatory Skills
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1. Strong communication some teams will have Execs or VPs in the role of product manager or business owner so a level of maturity is expected in this position

2. Certified Scrum Master with hands on experience

3. Hands on SAFe experience

4. Able to coach a team on adopting agile ways of working; candidate doesnt have to be Agile Coach but if they meet items 1 &2 above should be good here

5. JIRA experience able to create and use dashboards and charts for measuring team

This client will be reviewing candidates against the following criteria so candidates should be prepared to highlight and speak to the following:

• Program Management experience knowledge and education
• Strategic and Achievement Behavior
• Customer Relationship Skills
• Communication and Organizational Competencies
• Agile skills

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Scrum Master is an coach in assisting agile teams in meeting their delivery goals through agile practices.

Roles and responsibilities

Facilitates adoption of agile values and principles and ensuring that the team knows how to plan execute review and retrospect based on agile practices.

Coaches on consistent delivery of iteration goals under scrum practices and flow improvements under Kanban practices.

Trains and coaches teams on using Jira efficiently and effectively

Ensure Jira is the source of truth with timely updates for work and risks/issues.

Coaches teams on how best to design a work breakdown structure in Jira and adhering to Jira guidelines and standards applicable to the ValueBased Platform (VBP) Program.

Proactively identifies and resolves impediments.

Promotes cross team collaboration on dependency management and thought partnership.

Fosters a positive environment for high performance teams through selforganization selfmanagement continuous improvements and increased effectiveness of agile practices.

Facilitates iteration events including daily standup sprint planning backlog grooming team demo and retrospective.

Facilitates program increment planning.

Attends Agile Release Train (ART) sync and systems demos.

Skills and experiences

3 years or more as a scrum master.

Scrum master certification.

3 years or more as an advancedlevel Jira user.

2 years working experiences in healthcare.

3 years or more large program management experience is a plus.

Strong skills in communication and influence.