Agile Coach

Company: AFLAC
Location: Columbus
Posted on: September 3, 2020

Job Description:

Position Summary Engages with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to help facilitate agile transformation across the enterprise. Helps to increase agile adoption by proactively identifying IT efforts that can be transitioned to agile projects and prepares the infrastructure needed to support the transition. Plays a critical role in training, coaching and mentoring agile teams on agile values, principles, practices, frameworks and tools. Shares experiences and observations with teams and other enterprise groups to continuously improve performance of the teams, processes and practices. Responsibilities Facilitate adoption of agile values and principles across the enterprise, and influence leadership and associates on the culture change required to shift from a traditional to agile mindset. Provide guidance on achieving high levels of agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and enterprise frameworks Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of agile framework, processes and practices Define several training curriculum and create training materials needed. Conduct stand-up trainings and other on the job and just in time trainings Coach and mentor agile teams, program level and portfolio level teams Train and coach the teams on all aspects of planning and execution including user story creation, story mapping, release planning, agile events, progress monitoring and continuous improvement Create required visibility and communicate success stories of agile teams by creating and maintaining collaborative communication sites and tools Provide feedback from teams' retrospectives to the Enterprise Agility Office for improvement Define and roll out agile metrics and assist with the identification, collection and reporting on metrics and make recommendations for improvement to respective stakeholders across the enterprise Qualifications Education & ExperienceComputer Science, Information Systems or a related field, Certified Scrum Master with two years of experience as Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner with two years of experience

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