DIRECT CLIENT Agile CoachLocation: Lake County IL (flexible schedule but will need to work onsite 2-3 days a week)Duration: 6 Months + (this will extend) Experience• Previous Enterprise IT experience required• 7 years working in an agile environment required• 5 years coaching agile teams and Scrum Masters required• Leadership facilitation experience preferred Licenses• Scrum Master Certification - either CSM, or PSM I, or PMI-ACP required• Agile Coaching Certification required• Scrum Scaling Certification - either SPS (Nexus), or SAFe (SA or SPC) preferred• Advanced Scrum Master Certification: PSM II (Scrumorg) or A-CSM (Scrum Alliance) preferred Qualifications:• Deep understanding of Agile and Lean principles, along with the practical application of Scrum as a framework for working and Kanban as an approach to evolutionary change• Significant hands-on experience in at least one of the roles on an agile team (e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer)• Demonstrated evidence of continuous learning mindset• Deep knowledge of multiple facilitation techniques• Extended track record of delivering training in a manner than ensures knowledge transfer• Demonstrable experience with a scaling framework.• Experience collecting, interpreting, and communicating team metrics depicting progress/maturity.• You will regularly assess teams’ Agile maturity, which will inform your coaching and development approach for each team• You will bring your intellectual curiosity, love of learning new skills and capabilities, e.g., Agile principles and scrum values to influence change• You will share innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done• You have a deep background in coaching and developing people and agile teams and in influencing behavior change towards constant improvement• You have an Agile leadership style: lead by example, role modeling situations and behaviors, challenge command and control behaviors, value the ideas and opinions of others. Ability to guide leaders and practitioners in fostering a learning and adaptive environment.• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and MS Teams• Excellent communication and people-interaction skills• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required Role:• The OES Agile Coach guides the organization and delivery teams as they transition from traditional work styles to Agile mindset, behaviors, practices and/or Agile frameworks, like Scrum and Kanban. Responsibilities:• Able to transform teams from hybrid and waterfall software development practices to Scrum and Kanban where applicable.• Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coach in close cooperation/collaboration across all roles, and functions to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.• Model the Scrum Master responsibilities as part of coaching new teams.• Provide coaching to Scrum Masters.• Develop content, lead workshops and training sessions to educate individuals and leaders on Agile values, principles, and practices.• Recommend, develop, track, and monitor Agile metrics on areas that affect value-driven delivery and indicate potential problems, and assist teams in implementing solutions to remediate those problems.• Encourage adoption of Agile practices to improve delivery, communication, and teaming skills.• Foster an environment of mutual respect, trust, collaboration, transparency, autonomy, innovation and quality.• Generate new ideas, support change, encourage innovation, and help to creatively solve problems.• Provide courageous and sometimes challenging feedback to leadership in order to coach and help them find their way forward in the new way of working.• Guide and influence the creative process that inspires teams to embrace Agile frameworks.• Coach teams to assess, measure, document, and communicate progress against defined Agile transformation goals.
