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Agile Development Mentor
Bellevue, WATitle: Agile Development Mentor
Location: Seattle Area
Openings: Multiple
Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire
Location: Seattle Area
Openings: Multiple
Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire
- Serve as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices
- Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.
- Change Management
- Scaling Agile; release planning and dependency management
- Sprint events: planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives
- Impediment identification and removal
- Persona development
- Story mapping; road mapping and planning
- Backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization
- Story sizing and task estimation
- Team building and communication
- Tracking and using velocity, burndown and burnup
- Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments
- Provide training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams (i.e., individual and workshops)
- Serve as an advisor to teams; leading by example and challenging the status quo
- Perform ongoing assessments of the teams' Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions
- Cultivate Communities of Practice
- Partner with Scrum Masters to identify and support opportunities to increase team maturity
- Partner with Product Owners to ensure vision, roadmap and personas are well-defined and understood
- Guide scrum masters on becoming better at facilitation and focusing teams on completing tasks
- Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices
- Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation
- Foster a trusting environment focused on servant leadership and continuous improvement
- Draft and maintain training materials, collect and collate feedback from training sessions
- Ensure Agile adherence and consistency while maintaining teams' abilities to be self- directed
- BA/BS or equivalent work experience required
- Expert practitioner of Scrum and Lean Start Up
- Excellent communication, facilitation and relationship building skills
- Proven success coaching teams to adopt Agile methodologies
- Minimum of two (2) years of real-world Scrum coaching experience, guiding at least two (2) organizations through varied challenges of Scrum adoption (5 years ideal)
- Minimum of two (2) years as a practicing Scrum Master
- Diverse change management experience across multiple organizations, teams, products, environments and technologies
- Ability to facilitate discussion at all levels of the organization to resolve conflicts
- Experience with approaches for scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
- Stays current in the Agile space as exemplified by ongoing education in Agile frameworks training, conference attendance, user group participation and self-study
- Availability for some travel
- Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Rally, Atlassian tools -- JIRA, Confluence)
- Working knowledge of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
- Coaching experience at a Fortune 500 (large size) organization highly desirable
- Scrum Coach Certification (CSC) preferred