Job Description
Job Title: Delivery Coach
Job Location: Kohler, Wisconsin
Job Duration: 3 Months, Contract to Hire
Job Summary:
- Seeking a flexible, open-minded change agent who has demonstrable real-world Agile and Waterfall experience.
- In order to create an environment for transformation, this person must demonstrate the ability to influence the mindset and behaviour of teams and individuals.
- When working with teams, it is important for this individual to push back against prevailing norms, create a learning environment and lay the groundwork for slow but ongoing organizational and social change.
- This person should continually hone their facilitation and coaching skills, staying ahead of new developments in Agile and Waterfall.
- To guide each team's delivery process journey, they must embody the Agile Manifesto, Scrum Guide, Kanban practices and Waterfall process.
- This position requires Delivery Process excellence mindset, basing decisions on empiricism and identifying opportunities to continuously improve the way teams deliver projects, products and services.
- The Delivery Coach will work with individuals and teams within a designated functional or geographical area, as well as their executives, leaders, and managers.
- Additionally, this coach will need to partner closely with the Delivery Excellence Lead to ensure alignment with the strategic goals and value creation plans
Basic Objective:
- Influence mindset and behaviours, including those of senior leaders of the organization.
- Coach and support Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Kanban Facilitators, and teams as they adjust to and embrace software delivery ways of working at client.
- Instill Project Management and Agile principles through training and "in the moment" coaching with teams.
- Ensure Project Managers, Product and Platform Teams focus on achieving business outcomes and goals.
- Empower Teams to become self-managing, cross-functional with an attitude of relentless improvement
- Facilitate Scrum Masters and Kanban Facilitators in aligning to client Agile practices within a specific set of guidelines and boundaries provided.
- Coach Project Managers using client's Waterfall Coaching Framework and perform regular assessment to mature in delivery process
Job Responsibilities:
- Assess and enhance Agile and Waterfall process maturity
- Be an ambassador for the IT methodology Waterfall or Agile and be able to explain the value of the process and various phases
- Promote best practices in IPEC(Initiate, Plan, Execute, Close) for Waterfall delivery as it relates to waterfall as a process, activities within each phase of IPEC, generation and maintenance of project artifacts
- Share findings that impact Waterfall/Agile adoption, process maturity and performance identified during Project Manager, Scrum Master and Product Owner sync-up meetings with Centre for Delivery Excellence (CDeX).
- Partner with Delivery Excellence Lead in implementing Centre for Delivery Excellence (CDeX) OKRs and strategic initiatives within the team
- Work with the Delivery Excellence Lead to complete metrics roll-up and reporting.
- Perform Waterfall and Agile Maturity Assessment at regular interval of time and create coaching plan for each project or team.
- Enable Agile way of working
- Use the Agile Delivery Framework IPEC (Initiate, Plan/Activate, Execute, Close) for software delivery.
- Partner with Delivery Excellence Lead to support Agile Activation Process by reviewing Team Charter, Conducting Scrum 101 or Kanban 101 Training, IPEC for Waterfall Trainings
- Partner closely with Project Managers/Scrum Masters/Kanban Facilitators of assigned teams in evangelizing IPEC process.
- Partner with CDeX - Tools team in setting up ServiceNow PPM or Scrum/Kanban boards in Jira and Confluence for documentation.
- Collaborate with Business Leaders and Delivery Leaders in addres"
- Ready to work from office on Tues, Wed and Thursday.
- Should be ready to work in a hybrid teams of Agile and Waterfall.
Characteristics:
- Feels the Room" & Adapts
- IPEC4Watefall and IPEC4Agile Evangelist
- Facilitator
- Flexible
- Growth Mindset
- Servant Leader
- Change Agent
- Lean Thinker
- Active Listener
- Altruistic
Job Tags
Contract work, Flexible hours,