Job Description
What You'll Do
In an agile leadership role, you will play the role of an agile mentor in Cisco Digital Enterprise Solutions organization. As an agile mentor, you have a deep passion and expertise in agility and ability to unlock the intrinsic motivation, potential of people. You will help them understand the values, principles, attitude and tool set behind the practices and bring-in transparency and visibility by help in planning, performing, and deploying high quality product or software or services or solution on time. In addition, mentor will leverage experience in agile transformation in, matrix, geographically dispersed and virtual teams so that you can successfully help integrating agile approaches and tools across teams and partner groups.
Who You'll Work With
Who You Are
We Are Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here's how we do it.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!
But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool.
Cisco Covid-19 Vaccination Requirements
The health and safety of Cisco's employees, customers, and partners is a top priority. Our goal is to protect and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection for strong business resiliency during the pandemic. Therefore, Cisco may require new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, meeting with customers/partners (including visiting third-party sites on behalf of Cisco), attending trade events, and Cisco office entry, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, and in countries where COVID-19 vaccination is legally required. The company will consider legally required accommodations/exceptions for medical, religious, and other reasons as per the requirements of the role and in accordance with applicable law. Additional information will be provided to candidates about the requirements and accommodation process at the offer time based on region.
In an agile leadership role, you will play the role of an agile mentor in Cisco Digital Enterprise Solutions organization. As an agile mentor, you have a deep passion and expertise in agility and ability to unlock the intrinsic motivation, potential of people. You will help them understand the values, principles, attitude and tool set behind the practices and bring-in transparency and visibility by help in planning, performing, and deploying high quality product or software or services or solution on time. In addition, mentor will leverage experience in agile transformation in, matrix, geographically dispersed and virtual teams so that you can successfully help integrating agile approaches and tools across teams and partner groups.
- Play the role of an enterprise agile mentor and helped Scrum, Kanban, XP teams using scaled agile methods and tools.
- Be a passionate guide in the use of Agile Tools and able to train and coach in their usage and adoption
- Influence teams, and vendor partner teams to operate in a fast paced and exciting environment, develop and release quality product in an iterative and fashion.
- Be a role model of strong teammate, mentor, and collaborator. You will work with scrum, Kanban, and program teams to help them improve in needed areas and guide/coach them to run agile practices autonomously and help build strong teams.
- Guide teams, programs (Agile Release Trains) and portfolio assess their agile maturity and identify continuous growth opportunities.
- Collaborate with Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Solution Train Engineer, and assist with and external communication, improving visibility, and radiating information.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Solution Management, UX Team, System Architects, Teams, and Engineering Leadership Team to refine and maintain portfolio, solution, program, and team backlog.
- Educate teams and conduct Lean/Agile ceremonies like Daily Standup, Sprint / Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, Demos etc.
- Be responsible to identify release trains, roll-out Agile at scale along with other agile coaches understanding the challenges and opportunities that currently exist.
- Collaborate very closely within agile PMO, other lean agile coaches, program leaders and partners during Agile roll-out.
- Establish, rollout, help facilitate community of practices (CoP) involving SM, PO-PM, RTEs, and Tech Practices.
- Facilitate and conduct tech talks, lean coffee brown bag sessions influencing the right team members.
- Publish training calendar for Scrum, Kanban trainings and role-based trainings to optimally roll-out scaled agile across org. [Scrum Master, Product Manager, Program Manager / Release Train Engineer, Team member.
Who You'll Work With
- Within Digital Enterprise Solutions Organization (DES) organization, this role will blur interpersonal boundaries and break down silos to drive business alignment and cohesion in our approaches and practices. Every day and every interaction will be unique, but you will likely engage with a diverse representation of scrum masters, program managers, engineers, architects, product owners and product management, and scale team members.
- The successful candidate will build and nurture strong relationships with executive leadership, portfolio level and operations team members, and with various cross functional leaders, while providing servant leadership and agile coaching expertise for agile team of teams.
Who You Are
- Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent.
- 5+ years of program management experience with the last 2+ years passionate about agile mentor, agile or scaled agile implementation and running agile practices with an emphasis on continual improvement.
- Extensive experience using and configuring JIRA, JIRA Align or similar tools including reporting.
- SPC 4.x or 5.x - Scaled Agile certification ; prior experience in rolling out SAFe or any scaled agile framework is helpful.
- ScrumMaster certification (CSM) preferred; other agile certifications (ICP-ACC, CEC, ACP) in one or more practices Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, or similar is a plus.
- Must possess problem-solving skills, make things happen and decisive.
- Deep familiarity and understanding of Agile practices, Scrum, and Kanban.
- Ability to optimally articulate and present sophisticated concepts, ideas and strategies to senior leadership and end-users.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance challenging priorities in meeting business deadlines.
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation and communications skills.
- Extensive drive, high energy level, and the ability to self-manage.
- Based ideally US East Coast or UK, but remote working encouraged
We Are Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here's how we do it.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!
But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool.
Cisco Covid-19 Vaccination Requirements
The health and safety of Cisco's employees, customers, and partners is a top priority. Our goal is to protect and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection for strong business resiliency during the pandemic. Therefore, Cisco may require new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, meeting with customers/partners (including visiting third-party sites on behalf of Cisco), attending trade events, and Cisco office entry, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, and in countries where COVID-19 vaccination is legally required. The company will consider legally required accommodations/exceptions for medical, religious, and other reasons as per the requirements of the role and in accordance with applicable law. Additional information will be provided to candidates about the requirements and accommodation process at the offer time based on region.
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