Job Description
Here at Mindera, we are continuously developing a fantastic team, and would love it for you to join us.
The Agile Coaches do everything possible to help the team run smoothly, performing at their highest level. They are facilitators by nature and must live and breathe the continuous improvement mindset.
National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organizational needs: 0%-15% estimated.
Responsibilities
You are good at
- Protecting the team's time and estimations
- Making sure the teams can spare their 20% time for tech house cleaning / continuous improvement
- Not giving estimations on behalf of the team
- Holding PMs accountable to the backlog
- Helping them to keep the backlog in good shape before the team can commit to work.
- Ensuring that all user stories accepted by the team are refined, have estimates and a definition of done.
- Helping create a healthy relationship between team and PM
- Tracking interruptions and changes in priorities and document consequences of doing so
- Listening to the teams to find the practices they are more comfortable with and help them implement those practices
- Remaining neutral unless it is about the process
You rock at
- Fostering communication intra- and inter- teams
- Obsessing with the team metrics and data in order to measure and seek opportunity for continuous improvement
- Ensuring teams deliver with quality and on time
- Driving cultural change promoting an agile mindset.
- Removing impediments and handle dependencies
- Focusing on team collaboration & efficiency
- Promoting agile values with the teams and the organization
What you’ll be doing
- Tracking interruptions and changes in priorities and document consequences of doing so
- Helping the teams to remove blockers, and escalate when they can’t be removed
- Opportunity to show ownership and bias for action
- Making sure all work has a priority assigned and the entire team know what is more important and what is less important
- Escalating problems outside of your control quickly
- Surfacing information (metrics, project/feature status, problems/blockers, good practices etc) from teams to external stakeholders
- Facilitating learning and development through individual and team coaching;
- Coaching teams in agile methodologies to ensure adoption of the best practices;
- Effectively communicating agile principles & scrum practices across the organization;
- Undertaking daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects goals are on track;
- Delivering Agile Trainings/workshops
- Supporting PO in prioritizing and planning
Profile
About Mindera
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.
Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
Check out our Blog and our Handbook!
Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil
Benefits
We offer
The Things We Really Care About:
- Health Insurance, because health comes first
- Flexible working hours
- Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
- Profit distribution for everyone
- Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
- Training & conferences, create your own training plan
- Child Care vouchers
Other Good Things:
- Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
- Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
- We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option.
- At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
- Partnerships with local businesses
Most of all you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment. Check out our Blog: http://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Blumenau, Brazil | Casablanca, Morocco