Hi,
Hope you are doing well !!
This is Harish From USG.I
have an Urgent Requirement for Agile Coach. I hope your resume fits for the
below position. Kindly let me know your interest and also required your
updated resume. Please feel free to reach me any time.
*Put at top of all resumes:*
*Work status:* US-GC-etc.
*Current work location*: City & State
*Employment Status:* Employed, Unemployed, etc.
*Candidate’s home*: City & State
*Availability:* Phone asap/F2F 2-day, etc.
*MUST BE able to start two weeks from an offer!! HOT JOB!!*
Role: Agile Coach
Location: Ft Worth TX
Client: BNSF Railways
Duration: 12+ Months
Interview: Phone & In Person
*Description*
This position is responsible for implementing, facilitating, and enabling
Agile processes (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) at the Portfolio, Program, and
feature teams for the TSS 2.0 Program. The Agile Coach should be a
servant-leader who educates and coaches teams on Agile practices to
continually improve team performance. We are seeking to instill
“Philosophy Followers” rather than “Process Followers”, but we are seeking
an Agile Coach who can easily translate philosophy into actions. The Agile
Coach should be an exuberant evangelist who can re-energize people to the
benefits of Agile by providing them tangible mentoring on how to execute in
an Agile culture.
*Essential Functions*
• Ensure Scrum processes, rules and ceremonies are properly
applied by leading, facilitating, and supporting the following:
o Daily stand-up meetings
o Sprint Planning
o Sprint Retrospectives
o Sprint Demos
o Scrum of Scrum meetings
o Release Planning Events (as needed)
• Coach the team to:
o Understand and embrace Agile principles and culture
o Become a self-governing high-performance team
o Collaborate and effectively manage work
o Manage intrapersonal conflicts. Escalates to PMO and TS
Leadership where necessary, but only after internal team processes have
failed to resolve the issue
o Refine the team’s work capacity
o Provide transparency to the work and progress
o Team user story refinement
o Adhere to Definition of Ready / Definition of Done
• Coach the Product Owner in:
o Maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog with a
strong focus on Minimal Viable Product and incremental value
o Writing and breaking down User Stories
o Protecting the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Work with the RTE to help facilitate:
o Planning Events
o Scrum of Scrums (as needed)
o Project governance
o System Demos
o Stakeholder management and organizational change management
• Work with TS Leadership to instill an Agile culture
• Collaborate with the PMO and TS Leadership and escalate as
needed
• Support Scrum Masters in removing impediments to the team’s
progress
• Make work visible (Kanban/Scrum boards, Agile tools, metrics,
etc.)
• Collaborate with the PMO to develop and maintain team metrics
*Qualifications*
*• Education / Experience:*
o Working knowledge of at least one Agile ALM tool
o Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited
college/university.
o 10 + years of experience leading Information Technology
projects.
o 5 + years leading large scale transformation programs,
involving business process and change, organization change, and multiple
large-scale technology components.
o 2+ years delivering large scale IT solutions leveraging Agile
or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
o One or more Agile certifications:
o SAFe Agilist (SA) o CSM (Certified
Agile Coach)
o SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) o PSM (Professional
Agile Coach)
o PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• * Preferred Education, Experience and Skills*
o Master’s Degree from an accredited college/university (MBA,
Information Systems or Computer Science)
o Transportation industry experience
*• Required Skills:*
o Strong professional experience and a proven understanding
with iterative development, incremental software delivery, and the “why”
behind it
o Expertise in guiding team and enterprise level transitions to
Kanban, Scrum, XP and Continuous Delivery principles and practices
o Demonstrated knowledge with the principles behind emergent
requirements
o Excellent understanding of agile metrics (e.g. how to build a
burn-down, track velocity/cycle time, backlog tracking, and task definition)
o Ability to handle several simultaneous tasks, demonstrate a
sense of urgency and ownership to drive issues to completion
o Demonstrated experience and knowledge with a solid
understanding of project management fundamentals (time/scope/cost)
o Expertise in making continuous improvement changes,
especially as it relates to software development
o Exceptional facilitation skills; must be able to lead and
demonstrate value add principles with transparency (e.g. desire to bring
disclosure and grow trust)
o Proven ability to lead teams to self-organize and work
independently with limited supervision.
o Experience using agile life cycle management tools
o Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal,
relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels
o Experience in business and solution development,
project/program management, and project delivery
o Ability to interact effectively with various levels within
the organization
o Proven experience in change management.
o Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation
skills
• Bonus (Does not require technical proficiency to implement,
but understanding with how this fits into Agile)
o Knowledge of Trunk Based Development, Feature Toggles, API
Versioning, Compile Toggles
o Knowledge of Functional Test Automation, Test Driven
Development, and Behavior Driven Development
o Knowledge of at least one programming language
o Knowledge of Micro services, Domain Driven Design, and
Bounded Context
Knowledge of Cloud Native Design
*Personality Traits*
o Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software
and business concepts quickly (client has an existing process overlaid on
SAFe. Coach will need to learn Transform IT quickly to help teams align
SAFE & Agile to TFIT)
o Enthusiastic and fun demeanor with a mindset of team
empowerment
o Deep interest and curiosity for learning new things and doing
things better
o Strong problem-solving skills
o Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative
environment
Harish Karnala
United Software Group Inc..
565 Metro Place South. Suite # 110
<https://maps.google.com/?q=565+Metro+Place+South.+Suite+%23+110++Dublin,+OH+43017&entry=gmail&source=g>
Dublin, OH 43017
<https://maps.google.com/?q=565+Metro+Place+South.+Suite+%23+110++Dublin,+OH+43017&entry=gmail&source=g>
Direct Number : +1 614-408 1549
Board Number : 614-495-9222 EXT. 622
Fax: 1-866-764-1148
karnal...@usgrpinc.com
www.usgrpinc.com
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