Serves as the servant leader of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule.
Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects.
Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
Focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert
Exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership and the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile mindset.
Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
Facilitate the team s progress toward the goal and is constantly engaged in challenging the old norms and roles while keeping the team focused on the goals of the iteration
Monitor and analyze key team performance metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, and cycle time to identify trends, optimizing processes and drive continuous improvement opportunities in their team s agile practices.
Familiarity with product-centric team structures and the product operating model, with an ability to support teams aligned to customer value and product outcomes.
Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of the current PI objectives.
Facilitate all team ceremonies, including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, system demo, and iteration retrospective
Communicate with Management and outside stakeholdersHelps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
Agile Coach. Coaches and supports the team and those supporting the team in pragmatic, standard, best agile practices
Work with to identify process improvement opportunities to deliver business value faster.
Engage and develop the Change Management approach for any standard and best practices which includes but not limited to: direct communications, facilitation of training sessions and automate reporting on adoption of best practices.
Support shared services (eg:Cigna Information Protection, Infrastructure Solutions Group) & Business Operational Readiness areas (eg Service Operations, Sales, Underwriting) mature their processes to be as lean and efficient as possible.