Anveta, Inc

Agile Coach Chicago, Illinois.

Anveta, Inc Chicago, IL
Anveta, Inc

Agile Coach Chicago, Illinois.

Anveta, Inc Chicago, IL
2 months ago 47 applicants

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Title: Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Contract

Min Exp: 13 Years

Job Description

  • Seeking an Agile
  • Trainer/Coach.
  • In addition to the following responsibilities you will be responsible for working with teams and leadership on Agile adoption, facilitating workshops, removing impediments and obstacles programs and teams are experiencing, monitoring training and reporting on productivity improvement, creating standards and processes and training.
  • The Agile Trainer/Coach will be engaged throughout the enterprise transformation to facilitate a smooth transformation into Agile processes.

Responsibilities

  • Coaching: Working with teams to institute, practice, and adopt Scrum and Agile techniques.
  • Identify and introduce opportunities for the team to improve through coaching and questioning.
  • Mentoring: Serve as a mentor to Scrum Masters, Product Managers and other Agile leaders with an aim to make Agile techniques successful, resilient and permanent.
  • Training: Collaborate to develop Agile training materials, newsletters, and support communities as they relate to Agile practices.
  • Provide Agile and role-specific training (group and one-on-one) for management, team members, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters.
  • Observing / Assessments: Observe program and team activities (e.g., sprint, release and roadmap planning) and provide constructive feedback to teams and leads. Critical impediments and non-adherence to the Agile core principles should be brought to leadership attention immediately.
  • Process Adherence: Work with the teams to ensure adherence to the defined Scrum processes and framework (status reporting, compliance, estimation).
  • Tool Adherence: Work with the teams to ensure the appropriate tools are being leveraged and enterprise practices are being followed to enable consistency and metrics where needed.
  • Culture: Work with management and teams to strengthen our Agile culture.

Skills/Requirements

  • Experience in delivering Agile training and coaching in a transforming organization
  • 5+ years experience working in an Agile environment and experience with Agile development methodologies (i.e. Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, etc.)
  • One or more Expert-level Agile certification(s)
  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or other Agile related certifications
  • Knowledge and experience in Waterfall project management
  • Experience implementing and continually improving Agile principles and practices, and coaching the customer on the recommended approach
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate solutions effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Technical background with a deep understanding of modern DevOps practices preferred
  • Innovative thinking - ability to learn new tools and techniques and apply them to the program
  • Experienced in Agile Thought Leadership

Application Process: If you're interested and available for this above role and responsibilities then, apply now!

Please send us your updated resume in a word document with your expected hourly Rate at suhil@anveta.com

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  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

  • Employment type

    Full-time

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting

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