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0-5 years of experience
Participated in Enterprise Agile transformation and coordinated Agile adoption for teams across multiple sites in the US and Internationally.
- Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
- Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them.
- Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint site to improve the Agile maturity level.
- Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
- Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization’s transformation.
- Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for defining the agile transformation strategy for Enterprise Data Services, a 1000+ associate organization. Led a team of agile coaches (onshore/offshore) to execute the strategy by providing coaching and training support to over 90 teams across 4 geographic locations (including India).
- Coached leaders and teams through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures
- Provided reporting at the team and LOB level on team performance against agile measurements
- Created and conducted training courses for Scrum Masters and teams related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance
- Mentored and trained Scrum Masters, teams and agile coaches
0-5 years of experience
Mentored and coached four teams new to Agile in Scrum and Lean Best Practices developing firmware for hardware integration and shipping
- Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions
- Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week Iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning
- Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers
- Coordinated software development with product and marketing groups to ensure feature release based on manufacturing commitments
- Developed the roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for requirements, product management, and development team management.
- Served as product owner for TeeOff.com
- Served as scrum master for B2C development team – successfully managed 2 production deployments for 2014
- Gathered requirements and wrote user stories
- Coached other product owners on requirements gathering and story writing process
0-5 years of experience
Member of US Card Agile Program Office – considered a Thought Leader in Agile at Capital One. Co-authored the 2007 Agile strategy for US Card. Interfaced with Managing Vice Presidents to move Agile beyond the point of 50% acceptance.
- Program Manager for US Card Policy Compliance program. Oversaw six separate work streams to achieve compliance with policies. Received Capital One Circle of Excellence Award (4th award).
- Agile coach for Oracle Analytics Decommissioning Program – led effort to decommission obsolete tables and servers in the Oracle Analytic environment using Agile techniques (Scrum). Awarded two Gold Process Excellence Awards. Awarded the Capital One Circle of Excellence Award (3rd award). Program was completed three months early and returned $1.4 MM to the business.
- Agile coach for Long Term Channel Integration Project. Completed all user stories in only four iterations (two months earlier than expected), far exceeding the expectations of the team and our external partners.
0-5 years of experience
Facilitated the transition of the applications (20+ people) from waterfall to Agile as a Coach, while also acting as the Scrum Master of two mixed on/off shore teams
- Focused primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Placed substantial efforts on team member role training, time-boxing and providing strong metrics for all players
- Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%
- As a Scrum Master for three products and three separate cross-site teams (20+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. In eight weeks, reduced time to ship by approximately 30%. To achieve these results, updated group’s processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for seven different billing applications following Agile process
0-5 years of experience
Facilitated the transition of the applications (20+ people) from waterfall to Agile as a Coach, while also acting as the Scrum Master of two mixed on/off shore teams
- Focused primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Placed substantial efforts on team member role training, time-boxing and providing strong metrics for all players
- Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%
- As a Scrum Master for three products and three separate cross-site teams (20+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. In eight weeks, reduced time to ship by approximately 30%. To achieve these results, updated group’s processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for seven different billing applications following Agile process
0-5 years of experience
Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning – including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
- Ensured the RTP and off-shore teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and transparency – lead by example.
- Assisted as needed to help remove impediments and distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver on the Sprint goal.
- Adapted Scrum implementation as needed to work within a gated waterfall funding and release model, all while allowing the team to practice true Scrum as much as possible.
- Key role in researching, gaining approval for, and then using tools such as Pivotal Tracker and JIRA w/Greenhopper to successfully support Scrum implementations.
- Data migration/prime for transition to an Agile enterprise level tool – VersionOne.
- Performed an active coaching role for a program wide Agile implementation.
0-5 years of experience
Led first Lexington based PSW delivery team, Lexmark Interoperability, for first PSW/ISS combined product, Lexmark Secure Content Monitor (LSCM)
- Delivered LSCM 1.0 on schedule.
- Delivered Interact for Google Applications on schedule.
- Delivered Perceptive Intelligent Capture 5.6 on schedule.
- Provided 12 Agile Workshops for Scrum and Kanban to PSW and ISS teams.
- Mentored and coached transition of 16 delivery teams to PSW practices.
0-5 years of experience
Managed and coached SCRUM team using Agile Methodology of 3 weeks sprint cycles to deliver software on time and within budget.
- Coached current team and other teams within SIG to deliver all projects using Agile Methodology.
- Part of SIG Enterprise team to evaluate and select a Project Management tool to use for Agile Methodology. Rally was selected. My team was the primary SIG team using Rally and demonstrating SIG best practices.
- Managed a team of 7 supporting all projects within the Trading Info Systems (TIS) group / Clearing.
- Managed of two major projects: Intraday Clearing project, and SDMP Message Busses.
- Supported our production environment as well as all ongoing maintenance of legacy systems.
- Provided team members with bi-weekly 1-on1’s, training, reviews, salary reviews, and bonuses.
0-5 years of experience
- Managed four subgroups and eleven direct reports working on over 40 projects and 60+ releases at [company name].
- Contributed towards and oversaw the transition from Scrum to Kanban.
- Drove cross site efforts and ensured execution to completion while using Kanban.
- Coached and developed technical team members, project leaders, and future Product Owners and Scrum Masters.
- Responsible for the Build and Version Control aspects of Release Engineering for the PG Software Enterprise and Platform Firmware Organizations at [company name].
- Provided a reliable cloud environment and corresponding services as a vehicle for on time project delivery. Familiar with HW (Blades, Storage, Networking) and VMware configs for virtual environments.
0-5 years of experience
- Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies/Cadence meetings- Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Release planning, Product and sprint backlog grooming and Sprint demos
- Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint progress and daily burn down charts
- Coached and assisted the team with relative story sizing/estimation, task definition and Acceptance/Doneness criteria.
- Responsible to remove blockers, identify and mitigate risks and issues within the iteration/prod release.
- Resolved conflict, improved morale and established clear goals by effectively managing timelines and shared resources with special emphasis on building relationships.
0-5 years of experience
Facilitated Enterprise release planning across teams, business and product organizations as well as internationally co-located teams.
- Supported annual roadmap planning efforts with executive management to determine key support items for new efforts.
- Coordinate efforts across 33 software development, operation, and go-to-market scrum teams each consisting of 8-10 people each, and/or across teams that include marketing, sales, distribution, regional and external resource groups to ensure delivery of a program as part of one product line.
- Organized and lead Release Planning for a delivery group of multiple scrum teams assigned to a product or product feature group resulting in the creation of a product roadmap.
- Managed appropriate Scrum of Scrums sessions across agile teams to establish interdependencies and eliminate significant roadblocks.
- Manage major collective activities, issues, and risks across agile teams in support of the program.
- Ensure measureable KPIs are developed for the program, and that they align to the overall KPIs for the product.
- Manage stakeholder communication regarding Release Plans and Release deliveries. Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions.
- Removed impediments for the teams within the program as needed
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for transitioning Sheridan’s application development teams from Waterfall to Agile.
- Oversee the day-to-day progress of projects to guide release initiatives with regard to time, scope, budget, and quality directives.
- Identified and assigned Agile roles and responsibilities.
- Trained all team members on the Agile process.
- Worked with Business (PO) and Business Analyst on creating user stories, populating a comprehensive Product Backlog and trained them to identify a minimal set of high priority items that can be released.
- Served as the company’s Scrum Master, facilitating the ceremonies of Agile, sprint planning (as well as Release Planning), daily Stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Delivered hands-on coaching to tech leads, developers, and testers on how to estimate story points, break down stories into tasks and keep track of their hours in Team Foundation Server (Visual Studio – TFS).
- Publicized team’s progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders utilizing burndown charts.
6-10 years of experience
Planned and directed all phases of software development for several features using Agile (Scrum) methodologies, including epic planning, requirement analysis, backlog creation and sizing, task definition, sprint planning, creation, leveling and execution, defect and buffer management, and test team handoff.
- Completed each release on schedule with full scope and spare capacity in buffer iteration by holding daily standup meetings, and tracking burndown and quality metrics.
- Implemented Test Driven Development (TDD), ensuring all feature requirements were successfully met with minimal software design creep.
- Improved quality of subsequent iterations by holding retrospective meetings and incorporating lessons learned, suggested process changes and feedback from previous iterations.
- Fostered team building and skills development by utilizing each member’s strengths and personal growth interests in development process, and by encouraging team interactions and collaboration, thus giving the team more engagement in the outcome.
- Promoted Agile pair programming techniques, accelerating knowledge of junior developers and decreasing review time.
- Removed impediments to success by coordinating team members’ commitments with other projects and managers, and ensuring set goals were realistic and achievable and physical resources were available.
- Coordinated iteration scope and deliverables by working closely with requirements architecture and test phase contributors. Managed requirements churn with architects, limiting scope drift and costly rework.
- Ensured local development met company functional goals and project deadlines by coordinating with companywide multi-team feature leaders (scrum of scrums).
- Piloted, promoted and coached the use of agile development practices, facilitating shared knowledge and broadening pool of agile-capable development leads.
- Increased overall development efficiency by providing consultation to other feature tech leads and participating in epic planning, backlog creation and sizing, and development coordination in those releases.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for Training, mentoring and coaching all staff (executive leadership to engineering teams) in agile software development, product ownership, scrum master, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, teamwork, Servant Leadership and Trust.
- Develop training collateral and deliver training to all parts of the product development organization.
- Coach teams by embedding with the leadership and the teams to identify areas for improvement and guide leadership and teams in ways to address those identified areas
- Provide guidance to various groups on metrics, contracts, scaling and other agile methods
- Provide coaching and guidance on how to measure cost, ROI, lead and cycle times, team performance, and areas where technology, process and products can be improved.
- Used as an on-call leader when technology center gaps occur. As such, have managed and lead global teams until positions have been filled with permanent staff.
- This role is one of leadership, global influence and change.
0-5 years of experience
Overseeing resource staffing, budgeting, Agile engagement, Agile project management process training, team development, resource development onshore and offshore, Agile consulting, LEAN development, and alignment of activities across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Implemented and socialized agile methodology to ensure timely releases of all products to the field and appropriate platform stores (Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft) through the use of daily standups, detailed and business-approved user stories available for developer and quality assurance tracking and closure, precise task boarding, upstream management reports identifying burn-down rates and required budgeting and resource planning in JIRA, Rally, and DBOSS systems.
- Managed resource allocation, vendor relationships, product delivery change management and communication, and overall product delivery for 5 scrum masters and 10 associate product managers with matrixed responsibility over both offshore and onshore.
- Transitioned 11 waterfall teams to scrum framework for specific features in the NFL Sunday Ticket releases with process experimentation that allowed early releases before the commencement of NFL season. Trained PMO PMP-specialists on the agile methodology and hybrid implementation needs across the Engineering division for quicker estimations and release planning.
0-5 years of experience
Worked with several teams that had implemented agile but was not successfully delivering products to identify areas of opportunity for improvement and help them fill gaps in their Agile knowledge base.
- Completed an assessment of the current state of agile implementation within the teams.
- Set up a coaching plan to address the areas of opportunity found during the assessment.
- Trained all levels of team members in agile practices.
- Coached all levels of team members, helping them understand their role within the agile organization.
- Helped to integrate second agile coach into the team structure.
0-5 years of experience
Drove the transformation of the Engineering team, significantly improving quality, agility, efficiency, and predictability.
Over the course of this engagement I successfully coached and encouraged the team through a major transition from a reactive, defensive and unpredictable group of individual contributors to a collaborative, transparent, engaged and dependable software delivery team.
- Played role of Scrum Master on five geographically distributed teams (Boston and Argentina) increasing cross team collaboration and transparency.
- After an initial assessment period I tweaked the Scrum process in order to gain wider acceptance from the teams. These small changes resulted in deeper engagement and more harmonious, collaborative teams.
- Organized and facilitated iteration planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other SCRUM-related activities.
- Worked closely with company leadership to help them understand and refine their roles in an agile organization.
- Lead and managed a distributed software quality team (Boston and Mendoza, Argentina).
- Integrated the software quality role into the development process and transitioned the SQA team from a purely manual function to an automation/manual blend.
- Successfully championed and drove the addition of an automated regression suite, automated unit testing and a continuous integration process to the development cycle.
0-5 years of experience
Managed the project and program delivery of key initiatives.
- Led the Durable connectivity OFX 3.0 initiative, maiden standard setting initiative in collaboration with financial institutions for a more streamlined, efficient authentication and data transfer protocol.
- Drove and delivered the initiative to expose [company name]’s customer central aggregation engine to third party developers through the [company name] Partner platform.
- Managed the Nexus project that cached data, flowing through the real-time, hybrid and batch interface to the financial core systems, for Purchase Rewards
- Led the program Customer Central Beacon (initial framework release) for reengineering and transformation to a new data center (QDC) of the Data Acquisition Engine for end user financial data, used by Mint, Quicken Mac, Quicken Desktop, QuickBooks Online, Financial Works, Single Destination Page, BillPay, Quicken Health and [company name] Money Manager.
- Managed Customer Central Tax (TY10 and TY11), Initiate to retrieve Tax form data (1098 and 1099) from financial institution and provide it as a service to Turbo Tax products (online, desktop and Mobile) and transformation of the same to QDC.
- Agile coach.
0-5 years of experience
Leadership and Cultural Change Coach:
- Introduced Lean techniques through weekly workshops.
- Conducted exercises and activities with team to re-enforce Lean principles.
- Worked with team to schedule and conduct Kaizen event.
- Helped team to use Lean methods, direction and leadership.
- Documented workshop outcomes using Value Stream Mapping.
0-5 years of experience
Servant/Leader assigned to teams as Agile/Scrum process guardian, facilitator, and coach
- Helped the scrum team understand the need for clear and concise product backlog items
- Worked with the product owner and team on product planning and backlog grooming to maximize value to the business stakeholders
- Coached the team in self-organization, cross-functionality, and best practices such as XP
- Removed impediments to the development team’s progress
- Facilitated scrum events as requested or needed
- Helped scrum implementations within the organization
- Worked with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum within the organization
0-5 years of experience
Coach internal and external clients in Agile best practices.
- Conduct training classes for clients beginning Agile transformations.
- Identify and tailor additional training classes to address specific team
- Under my coaching, client team saved $1 million per year in development effort and increased delivery of work products from 60-90 days to 30-60 days.
- Working Knowledge of the following Agile tools: Scrumworks, Collabnet
0-5 years of experience
Client contract negotiation, responds to RFP, generates SOW and leads scrum teams. Manages team of 18 from design through delivery.
- Delivered web app as Product Owner for Avnet (#108 on Fortune 500) and NetApp (#474)
- Delivered web apps for SaaS crowd funding, strength training, and video auditions
- Product Owner in Scrum meetings, conduct client meetings and manage expectations
- User stories, requirements analysis, testing compliance, demonstrations and training videos
0-5 years of experience
Scrum Master and Agile coach for the Portland engineering team.
- Leverage Agile and encourage teams to follow the Agile framework.
- Educate, train, evangelize and encourage a continuous and transparent process improvement philosophy.
- Empower & coach the scrum team to work together more efficiently and perform at the highest levels.
- Schedule and facilitate all scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, sprint demo/reviews, sprint retrospectives) and remove impediments.
- Lead technology team to successful execution and empower the team to self-organize.
0-5 years of experience
- Oversee development of Mobile Purchasing Platforms and E-Commerce Website to sell & distribute food products throughout West African Countries – “30 month Project Assignmentâ€
- Act as the Agile Coach/Scrum Master, Manage budgets & oversee converting 30 project managers to scrum masters/product owners into Scrum Teams in a complex environment
- Implement the Agile Methodology & Coach department on the Scrum/Kanban Process
- Manage complex IT software development, database & other SOA projects
- Provide process & technical direction to technical teams using Android, iOS, .NET, HTML5
0-5 years of experience
Introducing and establishing the Scrum framework to replace Waterfall methodologies.
- Educating Scrum Team about event time-boxes, and the value of Scrum
- Collaborating with Scrum Development Team to mitigate impediments and ease the entire development process.
- Collaborating with Product Owner about Product Backlog management tools (JIRA), Product Goal and Sprint tracking (Burn-down Charts)
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
Agile Coach Duties and Responsibilities
In order to lead teams of developers in Agile methodology, an Agile Coach performs many different tasks. We analyzed job listings for Agile Coaches in order to identify these core duties and responsibilities.
Educate Colleagues The Agile Coach must educate employees at all levels, including senior, and at times clients, on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
Mentor Team As a mentor, the Agile Coach is responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions. They provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.
Develop Agile Adoption Strategy The Agile Coach is responsible for designing a strategy for the organizational adoption of Agile. This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
Implement Agile Methodology This task entails implementing Agile process, principles and practices across all levels and departments in an organization. The Agile Coach must use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. In order to do this, the Agile Coach must also embody the Agile principles and lead by example.
Agile Coach Skills
Both strong leaders and advocates for the adoption of Agile, Agile Coaches must be assertive about adherence to Agile processes and enthusiastic about Agile practices and their benefits. They are both educators and coaches, and thus possess great interpersonal skills, teaching abilities, and a capacity to inspire and motivate. In order to stay ahead, Agile Coaches must be self-taught, and they must constantly be updating their information, attending conferences, and continuously learning. Core skills: Based on job listings we looked at, employers want Agile Coaches with these core skills. If you want to work as an Agile Coach, focus on the following.
- Having programming experience
- Showing proficiency in relevant programming languages
- Demonstrating strong knowledge of and background with Agile concepts
- Possessing prior experience coaching teams in Agile adoption or as a Scrum Master
- Having some background or coursework in Computer Science
Advanced skills: While most employers did not require the following skills, multiple job listings included them as preferred. Add these to your Agile Coach toolbox and broaden your career options.
- Scrum Coach certification
- Scrum Master certification
- Experience coaching at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies
Agile Coach Resources
We searched the Web to find the best industry resources to help you continue exploring a career as an Agile Coach. From thought leaders to industry groups, this list is packed with opportunities to learn, connect and engage. On the Web
All About Agile – Leading resource in Agile Coaching
Agile Pain Relief – Latest tips and news in Agile
Agile Scout – Agile Software Development News Industry Groups
Agile Coaching Institute – Top institute for Agile Coaches
APM – Association for Project Management
PMI – Project Management Institute Agile Coach Books
Agile Project Management for Dummies – A beginner’s guide to Agile
Agile Project Management – Another beginner’s guide to Agile
Scrum: A Breathtaking Brief and Agile Introduction – Bestselling Scrum and Agile introduction
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