Agile Practitioner

Job description

• Team Building  - Promote and support high performing squad(s) with diverse capabilities, who are aligned in their intentions to achieve Objectives and Key Results(OKRs). Encourage a respectable, repeatable, and sustainable relationship between squad members to push the squads to learn about themselves, each other and how to best work together towards excellent levels of quality.
• Servant Leadership  - Utilize different team building and personality models to motivate diverse personalities to effectively  c oach and train the squad(s) to relentlessly improve by applying enabling and empowering concepts towards self-organization for actualizing accountability of squad(s), delivering commitment(s), segmenting and parsing impediments that will lead towards improved transparent communication and collaboration.
• Squad Owner Support  - Provide coaching and support to Squad Owners (Product Owners) in managing backlog for deliverables, facilitate squad engagement and ownership at key points within the delivery process to persevere or pivot and remaining calm and collected in high stress situations.
• Process Management and Improvement  - Work with Engineering Leads, Domain Leads and Agile Chapter Lead to evolve and foster a well-defined Agile development process and governance structure to champion ongoing process improvements within development squads to embed best practice for an Agile development workflow including good communication, planning and collaboration.
• Facilitate Quarterly Release Planning (QRP) and Execution  - Facilitate the QRP activities and empower the Squad Owner and Squad(s) to define scope and schedule. Support the execution towards expected delivery of value with the use of Agile ceremonies and methods to continually adopt the change and work towards relentless improvement.
• Predictability Improvement  - Work with management and showcase the trend of quality, say do ratio, stakeholder feedback. Prepare action plan to improve the Cost of Poor quality with collaboration with Squads (Agile teams) and present the trend to the management.
• Coaching / Mentoring  - Extend coaching support to the organization, actively participate and contribute to Agile Chapter, conduct training, mentor Associate Agile Practitioners, onboard and train new Agile Practitioners, assist squads in driving relentless improvement

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES

Skills Required

Agile, Scrum