Project Manager IT ( 4633 - Ohio )
Sharp Decisions · Raymond, OH · 2 mo ago
Information TechnologyContract
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a trusted Agile advisor and coach for leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams.
- Promote Agile values, principles, servant leadership, and Lean thinking across the organization.
- Develop Agile maturity through coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and training.
- Guide teams toward self-organization, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Foster psychological safety, trust, transparency, and collaboration.
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
- Facilitate retrospectives and improvement workshops.
- Help teams identify root causes of recurring challenges and implement sustainable improvements.
- Coach teams on metrics, flow optimization, and delivery predictability.
- Encourage experimentation and learning through Inspect & Adapt practices.
- Support development of high-performing teams and healthy team dynamics.
AGILE FRAMEWORK & PROCESS ENABLEMENT
- Establish and standardize Agile practices across teams.
- Support Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including:
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Standups
- Sprint Reviews
- Retrospectives
- Scrum of Scrums
- PI Planning
- Inspect & Adapt Workshops
- Ensure consistent execution of Agile processes and governance.
ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY
- Partner with leaders to identify and remove organizational impediments.
- Support Agile transformation initiatives and cultural change efforts.
- Help establish Agile operating models, roles, and responsibilities.
- Promote alignment between strategy, priorities, and execution.
- Coach leaders on servant leadership and outcome-focused management approaches.
VALUE DELIVERY & FLOW OPTIMIZATION
- Improve visibility into work prioritization and delivery flow.
- Support dependency management across teams.
- Guide backlog refinement and value-driven planning.
- Help teams achieve greater predictability through planning and measurement.
- Encourage focus on customer and business outcomes rather than activity completion.