Description:

The ideal candidate will be engaged to

o Provide guidance/coaching for all Agile Teams, both Scrum Masters and Team Members to ensure Agile Best Practices are executed across the organization.

o Identify areas to streamline the Agile Process in the organization.o Identify new/innovative ways to execute Agile Projects and provide these ideas to the Agile Community.o Coordinate Goals of each piece of Org so each function understands actions to get to rapid releases so that everybody understands why those Actions are necessaryo Work with the Development Org to promote best practices for developing code required for more frequent releases (including Quality Pre-checks, coding metrics, and backward compatibility).o Work with the Quality Engineering Org to promote automation required for more frequent releases (Smoke/Regression Tests complete and able to be auto-executed).o Help kick-off Agile Projects to ensure understanding of the Agile methodology and insert best practices up front that promote an efficient, stream-lined Agile process and rapid release delivery.o Generate exciting, innovative presentation material to introduce concepts and provide guidance on achieving the recommended practices derived from those concepts.o Willing to travel and work at client sites 50%-80% of the time

Skills required:

o Strong professional experience and a proven understanding with iterative development, incremental software delivery, and the why behind ito Expertise in guiding team and enterprise level transitions to Kanban, Scrum, XP and Continuous Delivery principles and practiceso Demonstrated knowledge with the principles behind emergent requirementso Excellent understanding of agile metrics (e.g. how to build a burn-down, track velocity/cycle time, backlog tracking, and task definition)o Ability to handle a number of simultaneous tasks, demonstrate a sense of urgency and ownership to drive issues to completiono Demonstrated experience and knowledge with a solid understanding of project management fundamentals (time/scope/cost)o Expertise in making continuous improvement changes, especially as it relates to software developmento Exceptional facilitation skills; must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles with transparency (e.g. desire to bring disclosure and grow trust)o Proven ability to lead teams to self-organize and work independently with limited supervision.o Experience using agile lifecycle management toolsEducation / Experience:
Must have at least 5 years of Scrum Master/Agile Coach experienceBachelor''s degree, ideally in a technical discipline with a development background.