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Position : Agile consultant
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*Location : **Chicago,IL
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*Duration : long Ter*m**
_*Description:*_
Agile Coach desired for premier Investment Firm in downtown Chicago for
a long term consulting opportunity! The Agile Coach is an individual who
has achieved advanced systems, individual and team coaching,
organizational development, cultural change and conflict management, and
strong leadership skills to create positive transformational impact to
organizations at large. The Agile Coach works at all levels of an
organization to help the organization use agile as a strategic asset for
business value generation which often includes impactful culture
change. This perso n will be enthusiastically devoted to driving the
adoption and optimization of Agile processes, principles and practices.
Typically, the Agile Coach also may need to perform the additional
responsibilities of the executing Program/Portfolio Management along
with the Coaching, mentoring and teaching responsibilities. In addition
to being an expert at Scrum or Agile team coordination, this person will
have experience with the application of Agile principles in one or more
of these development disciplines: analysis, design, development, testing
and management; and can relate principles, practices and the 'rules-of
thumb' of performing these disciplines in an Agile environment.
The Agile Coach typically has the experience to perform as a
Project/Program Manager with a strong delivery focus in addition to
Agile Coaching capability.
Major Duties
• Demonstrate leadership and display the behaviors that come with the
key mindset shifts associated with agile methods
• Coach teams and management towards improving Agile process and
metrics, evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams, and deliver training
classes for product owners, developers and testers.
• Develop, implement and manage team metrics, evaluate team metrics and
make recommendations to teams and management for improvements.
• Drive the organization-wide agile adoption strategy and rollout plans
• Capture feedback and continuously improve enterprise Agile guidance,
training materials, and content
• Enterprise Portfolio Planning and Management
_*Knowledge/Skills*_
• Scrum Coach Training
• Undergraduate degree – MS/MBA degree strongly preferred
• Documented recent (last 2 years) Agile training/conference/user group
attendance. We are looking for on-going involvement in the Agile
community and continuous improvement and growth
• General Agile training and facilitation across Project Managers and
all stakeholders
• Team Facilitation and/or Conflict Management
• Highly prefer a Master's degree; otherwise prefer a Bachelor in
information technology or related field.
Preferred Credentials
• PMI: PMP, ACP
• DSDM: Practitioner, Advanced Practitioner, trainer/Coach, Consultant
• Scrum Alliance: CSD, CSPO, CSM, CSP, CSC, CST
• Scrum.org <http://scrum.org/>: PSM, PSD, PPO
• ICAgile.com <http://icagile.com/>: Certified ICAgile Professional
(CIP), ICAgile Expert, Enterprise Agilist
• Other Lean methodology credentials – like Six Sigma, Kanban, etc.
Thanks and Regards
Amarinder Singh (Sr. IT Associate)
Kalven Technologies Inc. 2300, E Higgins Rd, Suite 211, ELK Grove
Village, IL-60007
1701, E.Wood Field Rd, Suite
300, Schaumburg, IL-60173
Work : 312-667-0211 | Email id : amarin...@kalventech.com
<mailto:amarin...@kalventech.com> | LinkedIn : Amar Singh | Skype id :
Amarinderkalven
http://www.kalventech.com
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