Sr Program Manager- Agile Coach

Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) 5

Be an active Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) 5 with experience delivering and certifying SAFe 5 courses using SAFe Collaborate: SA, SP, RTE, SSM, SASM, SDP, APM, LPM, POPM, ARCH, ASE, SGP.

Enabled and teaching regularly all SAFe classes, except RTE class. Excellent feedback from students - see example attached.

Collaborate with stakeholders and leadership to institute ORK framework for measuring progress and effectiveness at all levels. Coaching C level execs - references from COO, GVP, VPs and AVPs are available.

Help drive adoption of end-to-end Agile transformation strategy with Lean-Agile ways of working and SAFe as a cornerstone. Driving successful adoption of Agile Product Delivery in the Fed from 2019 all the way from the beginning of the transformation in the National IT. Moved from one successful Fed implementation to a next one - currently on my 3rd client within the Fed.

Advise on operating models and transformation governance. Currently implementing a new Ops model at the Fed. Perform AgilityHealth maturity assessments & recommend strategies to address growth items. Working with Sally Elate since 2019.

Expert in coaching, training, and mentoring roles from leadership to teams on their respective functions within SAFe. Act as role model embodying Agile values, principles, and demonstrating success patterns. Actively facilitate and coach LPM and ART events. Support Agile tooling administration, strategy, and adoption: SAFe for Enterprise, AgilityHealth, Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), etc. Jira Admin and trainer, ultimately familiar with Agility Health Assessments.

Help identify and coach champions within functional areas who can evangelize Agile and act as local mentors/coaches in their area. Develop Lean-Agile training materials and deliver content for and to both existing teams and the onboarding of new talent. Develop customized materials and deliver them to wide range of audiences now. Help launch and mature Communities of Practices and interaction/pollination across DT and the business. Launched SPC community of practice at the Fed.

Raise recurring/widely observed issues and bottlenecks to stakeholders; develops and implements comprehensive solutions. Coach organization through change, helping identify and attack organizational impediments which limit team productivity and quality. Help develop and monitor metrics to track Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts. Working on implementing low metrics with several teams now.

Create an environment that values and promotes autonomy, skill mastery, empowerment, transparency, innovation, learning. Foster a fail-safe, fail-fast environment where experiments lead to the best solution. Promote lean thinking principles such as reduced cycle times, limiting work in progress, reduced batch size, understanding of flow, identification of waste/inefficiencies and leading remediation efforts.

To qualify you must have:

• SAFe 5 Program Consultant Certification & Enablements
• 6 or more years’ experience coaching agile teams
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in engineering, IT, or a related field
• 3+ years’ experience guiding Agile portfolios, product lines, and budgeting
• Experience transitioning waterfall Project Management Lifecyle to Agile Product Delivery in complex, highly regulated environment
• Experience with 2 large scale (150+ people impacted) Agile transformation efforts
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, AgilityHealth, SAFe Enterprise
• Proven ability to think strategically, and to communicate strategy to large organization
• Substantial experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, SAFe, XP, DevSecOps
• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts to facilitate delivery of DevOps components of the Agile Transformation
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Active engagement in external agile and product communities with a network of professional contacts outside of the organization
• Up to 25% Travel may be required