Kanban Coach

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Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that services are delivered as planned and on time.
• Collaborate with the team to create and manage workflows, set goals, and communicate with customers and stakeholders (engineers, managers, project managers, coordinators, I&O, and larger IT teams) about the status of services.
• Schedule, align capacity, and manage dependencies to ensure workflows are delivered on time and efficiently.
• Ensure work is understood and scheduled according to WIP limits, with predictable start and end dates.
• Initiate regular and continuous improvement activities within the team and across the organization.
• Monitor the Kanban board to ensure work items are completed regularly and without interruptions.
• Document and coordinate project work (waterfall date-driven work) with the Kanban board for a single source of truth, accommodating dependencies and timelines.
• Schedule and conduct regular Kanban team meetings to keep the entire team aligned on work in progress.
• Focus on delivering value to customers by controlling all work processes and coaching the team on these processes.
• Communicate with work item owners if tasks are delayed or not completed on schedule.
• Proactively identify and resolve work disruptions before they occur.
• Resolve and/or escalate impediments as needed for proper visibility and resolution.
• Lead conflict resolution within the team, removing any roadblocks to collaboration.
• Participate in larger IT PI planning events as determined by the governance model.

Required Skills:

• Experience in Kanban, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Assist team to define and manage WIP limits to prevent bottlenecks and overloading.
• Guide teams in identifying root cause of issues and developing effective solutions
• Helping teams to mature through the use of the Kanban practices, events and maturity model
• Project management or coordination experience.
• Ability to facilitate work within groups and between teams.
• Ability to manage and influence without direct reporting structures.
• Initiative-taking and coaching skills.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement through empirical data and metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience:

• 5-10 years of relevant work experience.
• Expertise in Kanban and flow optimization (WIP, Cycle Times, and Throughput).
• Kanban, Agile, and Scrum experience/certifications.
• Experience managing or scheduling work/projects.
• Experience working within IT projects and teams.
• Knowledge and experience with managing complex network infrastructure projects within core datacenter and remote locations
• Developing Kanban teams to become high performance teams.
• Experience maturing teams with a maturity model (eg. Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)).