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Role : Agile Coach
Location : Lansing MI
Duration : 10 Months
In Person Only
•Provide daily coaching to Product Manager(s) and stakeholders on how to apply scaled agile practices to achieve business success.
•Assist Product Managers and business stakeholders understand how to write Epics and Features, Leading Indicators, Business Value and Acceptance Criteria.
•Coach Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum teams to facilitate program increment planning readiness.
•Assist in facilitating the Program Increment Planning Sessions.
•Ensure there are clear processes and ceremonies in place to increase transparency regarding the program/product status (for example: Solution Demos, Metrics, and Retrospectives).
•Facilitate Product Management level workshops and discussions to generate new ideas and improvements.
•Provide daily coaching to scrum masters, team members to apply scaled agile practices to achieve business success.
•Facilitate team level workshops (Creation of Definition of Done/Ready, Story Pointing, etc.) and discussions to generate new ideas and improvements.
•Facilitate alignment and improvements.
•Help Product Owners and teams to understand how to write User Stories, Acceptance criteria.
•Observe rituals / scrum ceremonies daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to scrum masters, team leaders and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies.
•Help team understand various Agile Metrics, Effective use of Burn-up and Burn-Down Chart, Cumulative flow and other Agile Metrics that help team / PO improve Sprint execution.
•Ensure there are clear processes and ceremonies in place to increase transparency regarding the team’s status (e.g. Demos, Metrics, Scrum of Scrums).
Skill
Documented experience coaching agile teams.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work with all levels of an organization involved in agile