Agile Coach

About Us

The Private Sector Group, LLC.

We are a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) IT consulting firm based in Northern Virginia, serving both commercial and federal clientele. We specialize in bringing Scaled Agile solutions to the enterprise that provide our clients with a competitive advantage like no other.

Why Join Us?

Are you looking for a leading tech consulting company that’s making agile transformation a reality for federal customers? Here at PSG, our team members all share a positive attitude, professional work ethic, and growth mindset that’s making a tangible impact on our world. Our values, company culture, and work-life balance sets us apart second to none!

• We provide opportunities for you to contribute to the success of our customers, within a collaborative team where your expertise makes a difference!
• We challenge you to do exciting work while helping you grow your career
• We invest in you to realize your best self
• We honor our commitments - large or small
• We operate with customer-centricity at our core!
• We embrace innovation and creativity
• We take ownership of our work and aim for excellence, and conduct business with integrity, trust, honesty, respect, and fairness!
• We offer a culture of open communication with respect to diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints!
• We believe in a healthy work-life balance!
• We offer competitive pay, Bi-annual performance bonuses, benefits, and a program for you and your family to live healthy and secure!
• We offer full-time salaried positions, 100% Remote, and flexible work schedules!

Descriptive Summary

The Agile Coach position is a critical role supporting a direct client and includes:

As an Agile Coach, you will be responsible for supporting the execution of the customer’s Agile Transformation. You will work with an Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure Agile best practices are implemented and used to drive toward program objectives. You will help build understanding, articulate concepts, and support training in Scaled Agile methodology.

Key Performance Indicators

1. Providing coaching and facilitation support.
2. Facilitating discussions, negotiating paths forward, and articulating agile-related material in line with the client’s agile best practices and vision.
3. Engaging in coaching and updating transformation-related deliverables (maturity models, recommendations, and managing metrics and assessments).
4. Improving the Agile maturity of engaged teams.
5. Engaging clients and building trust as a trusted advisor.
6. Delivering training content, workshops, and mentoring sessions to empower our teams with Agile best practices.
7. Gathering client/customer feedback.

Coaching and Facilitation:

• Provide coaching and guidance to an ART comprised of multiple stakeholders and vendors in the Department of Veterans Affairs space.
• Identify and address impediments to Agile adoption and recommend solutions
• Act as a change agent, promoting Agile principles and values throughout the organization

Core Functions

• Mentoring teams on Agile techniques like estimation, planning, and story mapping
• Working with ART leads to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for adopting Agile best practices
• Guiding the ART in how to stay on track with Agile techniques, fine-tuning their approach to ensure that overall strategy is being met
• Leading Agile workshops for the ART, as well as for key stakeholders
• Analyzing data to identify areas for improvement and inform coaching and training efforts
• Maintaining and improving our client’s customized agile methodology
• Maintaining subject matter expertise over the client’s methodology and similar methodologies and practices used within the client’s organization and elsewhere in the industry
• Strong in-person and remote facilitation experience
• Observing ART ceremonies and providing recommendations for client consideration

Winning Behaviors, Competencies, and Skills

• Relationship building and maintenance in both government and commercial sectors
• Handling situations with incomplete information
• Life-long learning attitude
• Lean-Agile mindset
• Consulting 101 (preparing before meetings, requesting peer review of all presentation materials, following up with customers if answers are not known/available at the time)
• Being present, demonstrating value, solving problems, and offering solutions
• Setting meetings up 15 minutes prior, testing audio/video equipment, preparing printouts, providing meeting agenda and purpose, identifying the audience, catering to specific client needs, annotating action items, following through on agreed next steps

Minimum requirements

• Active SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) 6.x accreditation
• Minimum 5 years coaching, facilitating, and training/mentoring scaled agile teams through an Agile transformation
• Minimum 2 years of coaching in a Federal Government environment

Preferred requirements

• Hold an IC Agile ICP-ENT – Enterprise Agile Coaching Certification
• Hold an IC Agile ICP-CAT – Coaching Agile Transformations Certification
• Experience working on an Agile Release Train (e.g. RTE, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner)
• Experience working in Scaled Agile and DevOps environments
• Experience working with Digital.ai Agility (or other similar Enterprise Agile Planning tools)
• Experience coaching organizations adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or financial systems
• Experience coaching organizations with multiple clients, customers, and vendors – each of which are separate companies/entities

Contractual Requirements

• MUST be a U.S. CITIZEN
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• A bachelor's degree in business or a related field

Location

• 100% Remote