agile champion role

1. Local Agile Champion (AC) Role

2.  In every implementation ,agile and non agile, someone needs to
keep an eye that the procedures and mind set are kept and
followed.
 The Local agile champion , take this role, and has a critical factor in
agile implementation long term success
 He is the implementation hart beet monitor
 Makes sure methodologies and tools keeps on moving
 Project will slowly vanish or die in terms of methodology , mind
set and efficiency without an agile champion.

3. Local Agile champion – a professional leader .
 A champion is the first to be educated about agile
practices.
 Feel the agile hart beat
 Drive the change locally
 Communication - walk the talk – talk the agile talk
 Department - internal/external Communication
 Reflects Visibility to the level of agile methodology
adherence in the department
 Process
 Progress
 Forums, meetings , status etc.
 Perform as a model to team leaders a, managers and
team members
 Presents in team’s day to day activities (randomly)
 Daily
 Scrum master of the SOS
 Sprint planning
 Sprint retrospective

4. Local Agile champion cont’
 Follow technical project status and report
results to the team and business if needed
 Manage implementation battlefield
 Ongoing communication to agile coach (if
exists)
 Ongoing self learning (reading agile materials)
– know the agile way
 Bi-weekly meetings with Scrum masters and
business
 Lead the Scrum master forum
 Meet the team once in a while – collect team
inputs
 Effort – 20 -50%
 Best practice will if it is someone from inside
the organization

5.  Definition of done :
 Formal and non formal visibility for end to end process with effective mechanism
to improve it inside the department
 Local Ac as the contact and authority of agile methodology inside the
department , according to Retalix lead AC policy

6. Requirements
 Excellent communication skills
 Maturity
 Passion to agile – believe in it or at list has
the potential
 Process point of view
 Out of the box thinking
 Can be coached
 Project management experience - big
advantage
 Quality experience (process or testing ) - big
advantage

7. Needs
 Management backup
 Capacity