Agile Coach at CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

• Job Location Rockville, MD
• Seniority Not Applicable
• Type Full-time

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Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced Department: Project Management CGS is seeking an experienced, enthusiastic team member to act as an Agile Coach within our team supporting a large federal agency.

The agency is committed to an operating model based on Agile, Product-focus, and DevSecOps in pursuit of increasing efficiency, efficacy, and overall success of various IT verticals and missions.

The ideal candidate should embody an Agile mindset and be passionate about empowering an Agile culture through experience coaching, guiding, and supporting executives, managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and others.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology.

To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others.

Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success: Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, as well as provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance to refine their processes Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting.

Assist organizations to define, prioritize, and decompose requirements in Product and Program Backlogs Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, Assess team performance and Agile maturity, and report findings Provide feedback on processes, policies, procedures, training, and tooling changes to better support the enterprise's Agile transformation Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate cross-team planning workshops Facilitate and coordinate cross-team grooming sessions.