Agile Teams Coach

Must haves:

• Solid experience as a dedicated, hands-on Agile coach
• Strong background in Agile coaching and developing people and teams
• Personality is important. Be pragmatic and realize that Agile & Waterfall both exist & are critical to their Center for Delivery Excellence.
• Strong understanding and implementation of Agile practices
• Strong influencing skills without having control/authority
• Excellent communication/people skills
• Full commitment to Agile practice, including terminology & mindset
• Be able to provide guidance on framework such as logging, exceptions, refactoring goal is to reduce technical debt
• Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Business or related field required
• 7+ years professional experience or demonstrated Business acumen

• Must be local to Wisconsin so can be onsite in Hybrid position. 2-3 days per week

• Prior hands-on experience working as a product owner and or scrum master
• Understand Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration Continuous Development (CICD)
• Assess & enhance Agile maturity of teams
• Attend & assess team during Agile events
• Ensure Agile dashboards are completed at the end of each Sprint (SCRUM)
• Facilitate additional metrics collection in partnership with Scrum Master
• Work with Agile Enterprise Coaches to complete metrics roll-up
• Identify ongoing training needs for teams
• Share findings with Agile center of excellence

• * CI Tools Experience Jenkins, Github, SonarQube/Crucible etc
• * Continuous Deployment with a focus on push-button releases (any tool)
• * Test Driven Development (TDD)
• * User Story Writing Guiding the product owners to write Vision statements, OKRs, Translate OKRs into Epics, Slice Epics into user stories, Acceptance criteria, BDD (optional)