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The Agile Coach, is responsible for coaching teams to adopt and adapt using popular methodologies, including: Scrum, Lean, KanBan to help our teams deliver. The Coach role requires a high level of self-motivation coupled with the ability to drive and motivate teams to pragmatically use good practices and techniques that deliver results. The Coach will partner with teams and individuals across the organization and will need to have a passion for their work that drives results to the teams they support. Responsibilities:
- Perform agile coaching and scrum master responsibilities for teams, with a primary focus on coaching.
- Work with cross discipline delivery teams, product owners, designers and architects to validate project assumptions, dependencies and create product plans and roadmaps
- Hands on leadership guiding teams to think Lean and be Agile.
- Foster a team environment of self-organization, retrospect to learn and adapt with the goal of delivering the highest value to our guests and Cast.
- Help teams to understand and use the agile tools as defined by projects and/or the organization.
- Participate in internal and/or external training programs, staying current on agile practices and technical skills applicable to assigned duties.
- Play an active role in building our practice through the mentoring and development of talent.
- Coach teams with an inclusive style that embraces diversity, and will allow teams to successfully operate in a highly matrix organization where partnership and influence are key drivers of success.
- Collaboratively facilitates sessions with teams.
- Efficient and effective with facilitation and training teams to execute Scrum ceremonies.
- Work with the team to iteratively discover and refine the product backlog
- Show, teach, and support team members to facilitate retrospectives to continuously improve working together and becoming a highly effective and efficient team.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, subject matter experts and other business partners to drive collaboration and resolution
- Train and educate product owners on their role with the team
- Train and educate agile team facilitators on their role with the team
- Understand and share metrics with the teams to help fine tune their processes
- Show good technical practices to the team to ensure that quality is built into the process early
- Help teams to understand and determine what documentation is minimally viable for their work.
- Help teams to use Lean processes to rework and adjust our own processes
- Minimum of 1 year of Agile coaching experience in a cross-functional technical software delivery capacity delivery using tools such as VersionOne, Jira, etc. to facilitate delivery and status reporting.
- Minimum of 5 successfully coached project initiatives that were executed using a Scrum-like, or scrum based processes
- Proven knowledge and experience in the technology field and technology project delivery.
- Proven experience in coaching technology projects.
- Proven facilitator that can lead sessions and workshops driving commitments, accountability, and deliverables.
- Proven ability to train and teach new concepts to challenging audiences.
- Demonstrated exceptional critical thinking, strategic planning, and process management skills.
- Demonstrated experience with multiple software development lifecycle methodologies (focused on Agile, Lean).
- Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Exceptional interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and the ability to work effectively across a wide range of constituencies in a diverse corporate and client environment
- Ability to inspire, motivate and train teams and individuals to use new processes and adapt
- Demonstrated inclusive mindset that embraces diversity
- Ability to communicate effectively to executive leadership in both business and technology roles.
- Excellent organizational, communication and time management skills.
- BA in technology/engineering field
- Experience in supporting travel trade, hospitality, and/or large scale businesses and logistics systems.
- First-hand experience with practices: ACP, CSM, CPO, SAFe, LeSS, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall
- Proficiency with Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tools
- Agile Certifications i.e. CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS
- Minimum college/undergraduate degree-B.S./B.A
- Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team building efforts
- Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested
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