Agile Development Mentor

Job description

Title: Agile Development Mentor Location: Seattle Area: Openings: Multiple: Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire: - Serve as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices - Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace. - Change Management - Scaling Agile; release planning and dependency management - Sprint events: planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives - Impediment identification and removal - Persona development - Story mapping; road mapping and planning - Backlog management: definition, grooming, and prioritization - Story sizing and task estimation - Team building and communication - Tracking and using velocity, burndown and burnup - Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments - Provide training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams (i.e., individual and workshops) - Serve as an advisor to teams; leading by example and challenging the status quo - Perform o...