Vacancy title:
Agile Coach
Jobs at:
KCB Bank KenyaDeadline of this Job:
Friday, May 31 2024
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 21 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya - incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 - and all KCB's regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It als...
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Increment (PI) Planning Facilitation
• Gain an understanding of product roadmap and priorities for the team for upcoming PIs.
• Use dashboards to track, verify & report content readiness against priorities and baseline capacity of teams. Collate the dashboards across scrum teams with scrum masters for a global view of all initiatives that are under execution.
• Facilitate meetings between Product owners, scrum masters and Technology teams if required to address impediments regarding content readiness.
• Manage stakeholders outside the scrum through constant engagements and communication on status of all the initiatives.
• Facilitate the PI planning for Product Area and Technology teams on the day of PI planning.
• Support the team by resolving queries related to PI planning process or tooling.
• Participate in PI planning management reviews to ensure dependencies are being understood and resolved.
• Work with Product Owners to schedule delivery plans of initiatives across the enterprise.
• Conduct a PI Planning retrospective and record and track key actions from retro.
Support PI Execution
• Track PI progress using dashboards and help team to prepare for PI steerco.
• Lead periodic synchronization events within Product Area such as Scrum of Scrums/ART sync, iteration demos and System demos.
• Lead backlog refinement for Product area teams.
• Promote DevOps and continuous delivery.
• Coordinate planning efforts with other Product Areas teams. This entails technology capacity assessment/determination and communicating the same to product owners.
Coaching and Mentoring
• Coach the Product and Tech teams in agile and PI process.
• Help increase adoption of Scrum practices (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) within organisation.
Continuous Improvement
• Seek feedback from various stakeholders in PI.
• Continuously look for opportunities to improve the process to make it lean and efficient.
• Use metrics effectively to identify trends and improvements areas and work with teams on improvements.
The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: -
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
• Any one qualification from the list: Any Agile or Scrum certification or SAFe® Release Train Engineer Certification (RTE) or Agile Coach certifications or Scaled Agile.
• 5 years’ relevant work experience.
• 3 years’ successful project implementation experience using Agile and Scrum methodology; with the ability to track and monitor health of a planning interval quantitatively and qualitatively.
• 2 years’ experience in coaching and mentoring teams in agile and SAFe.
• Experience in working in an Agile development environment with the ability to identify risks and issues and escalate appropriately.
• Hands-on experience of working as a Release Train Engineer or Agile coach within an organization that has 50-150 people within squad/tribes is desirable.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement/management and communication.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to KCB Bank Kenya on eoin.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com to apply
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