Agile Delivery Consultant


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Experis IT

Listed on

2nd January 2019

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£500 - £700

Type

Contract

Start Date

ASAP

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Lead an agile and digital transformation by providing coaching, mentoring, and training. Coach a team adopting agile working practices for pilot projects with a view to rolling out across the whole organisation to deliver digital services. To develop at least three permanent members of staff to become competent Agile Coaches.

Working with:

* Scrum Master team

* Scrum Development teams

* Product Owners

* Technical Delivery Managers

* Programme managers

* Project Managers

* Business Analysts

* Directors

* Senior Management Teams / Leadership teams

The Role

* Support agile delivery to increase efficiency of product portfolio outcomes and cross programme consistency

* Improve quality and consistency in planning, reporting, forecasting and agile ways of working across multiple programmes and teams

* Advise improvements and support commercial and finance processes (programme side)

* Build internal capability and mentor teams to improve agile delivery and develop agile culture

Key Skills / Experience

* Facilitation and coaching of staff in a broad range of Agile workshops within teams and programmes of work

* Customised Agile training and workshops for staff sitting outside of Agile development teams

* Team level Scrum coaching to evolve team ways of working incorporating Scrum principles, values and practices

* Team level Kanban coaching to evolve team ways of working incorporating Lean and Kanban principles and philosophies

* Strategy for the implementation of metrics at organisational, programme and team levels, including baselining and measurement of transformation progress

* Evolved a streamlined process that supports and optimised the flow of work through the organisation from idea to delivery

* Be available onsite during all core business hours

* Assisted in implementing Agile testing approaches and technology within team and programme settings, including the use of automation for regression testing

* Applied Agile engineering and DevOps techniques within project contexts including discovery of current practices and creating a staged plan to evolve towards better ways of working

* Incorporated Business Analysis into Agile ways of working

* Coached Product Owners/Managers and related stakeholders to successfully shape products/maximise value by application of Agile techniques for Product Strategy, Visioning, Story/User Journey Mapping, User and Customer feedback loops, Backlog Management

* Helped build a Scrum Master community through community coaching sessions and interactive coaching support of individual Scrum Masters working with teams and workshop facilitation

* Assisted and evolved the contribution of the programme management function into the Agile delivery approach

* Multi-team programme coaching to successfully incorporate suitable scaling patterns

* Coached and supported leaders to incorporate Agile and Lean concepts into organisational design, processes, policies and staff leadership

* Coached and articulated the benefits of Continuous Integration, Deployment and Delivery. Discovery of current practices and ability to create and implement a staged plan to move towards Continuous Delivery

* Demonstrable experience coaching and implementing large multi-team Agile programmes of work

* Use of VSTS to create, manage and keep up-to-date a Product Backlog including the use of Sprints, reporting and capacity planning

* Use of Jira to create, manage and keep up-to-date a Product Backlog including the use of boards, Sprints, time tracking and reporting

* Experience and knowledge of the Microsoft Technology including GIT (pull requests) and work items association build definition, creation and maintenance

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