Gear Stream - Making Software & Product Innovation Flow
The Gear Stream Mission
Gear Stream unlocks software and product development project work that is today throttled by functional silo's and blocked by slow and error prone hand-off transitions by helping companies transition to a model where continuous, adaptive, Lean based collaboration and Agile development software and product development flow happens.
The Gear Stream Approach
We teach, coach and supply teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
The Gear Stream Result
- Radically Improved Employee Motivation and Performance
- Greater Enterprise Agility: Enabling and Embracing course corrections at the last responsible moment
- Lean Operations: faster software and product development cycle time, productivity and quality
- Transparent and collaborative Enterprise Learning
- Increased Enterprise Innovation
- Accelerating profits
- Improved Corporate Sustainability
Gear Stream is looking for an exceptional Business Analyst with Agile/XP Methodology experience to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Writing concise and effective User Stories, NOT Use Cases
- Defining precise and accurate User Story acceptance criteria that will be used by developers, automation test frameworks and by product owners to insure that product owner intent is effectively captured.
- Gathering requirements for IT development projects by conducting interviews, work flow analysis, process analysis, and observation sessions.
- Evaluating information from multiple sources and help distinguish user requests from user needs.
- Interfacing with all levels of internal clients and analyzing current business and software development processes.
- Interpreting customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements.
- Arranging client reviews of software under development, ensuring client satisfaction.
- Adhering to and suggesting Agile principles and methods of requirement gathering.
- Facilitating Agile rapid and meaningful releases.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of Business Analysis with a strong development background
- 3+ years experience in a true Agile / Scrum / XP environment where Test Driven Development (TDD) and Paired Programming is present
- Experience using Agile Automation Test Frameworks like FitNesse and Cucumber a PLUS
- Expert ability in requirements gathering, definition, business planning, data analysis, process analysis, business and functional requirements analysis, system design, testing implementation and change management
- Expertise with conducting use case based analysis of business processes
- Experience performing end-user interviews, leading requirements gathering sessions, and User Acceptance Testing
- Must have exceptional soft skills, including the ability to speak both technical and business
- Ability to mentor and coach others
Gear Stream - Making Software & Product Innovation Flow
The Gear Stream Mission
Gear Stream unlocks software and product development project work that is today throttled by functional silo's and blocked by slow and error prone hand-off transitions by helping companies transition to a model where continuous, adaptive, Lean based collaboration and Agile development software and product development flow happens.
The Gear Stream Approach
We teach, coach and supply teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
The Gear Stream Result
- Radically Improved Employee Motivation and Performance
- Greater Enterprise Agility: Enabling and Embracing course corrections at the last responsible moment
- Lean Operations: faster software and product development cycle time, productivity and quality
- Transparent and collaborative Enterprise Learning
- Increased Enterprise Innovation
- Accelerating profits and
- Improved Corporate Sustainability
Job Description:
This person will be dedicated to helping our customers explore, adopt and optimize Agile-lean processes, principles and practices.
This person will help coach our customers in the following Agile software development practices:
- writing user stories
- release and iteration planning
- Scrum stand-up meetings
- velocity and capacity planning
Will be responsible for providing user story workshop, facilitate project meetings and work with Project Managers to give them a solid foundation in Agile / Scrum methodology.
Will help develop, implement and maintain team metrics, evaluate team metrics and make recommendations to teams and management for improvements.
Will coach teams and management towards improving Agile process and metrics, evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams, and deliver training classes for product owners, developers and testers.
We are looking for not just an expert at Agile team coordination, but someone who also has the experience with the application of Agile principles to one or more development disciplines; analysis, design, development, testing and management; and can relate principles, practices and the 'rules-of thumb' of performing these disciplines in an Agile environment.
Qualifications:
- Strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentorship experience on several engagements / workshops
- 7-10 years in a technical software development environment or with IT Project Management
- Must have a solid background utilizing an "Agile" engineering approach to SW development. Examples of Agile SW development methods includes the following: SCRUM, Test To Design (TTD), Rapid Prototyping (Iterative) and Incremental approach to SW development
- Minimum 3+ years experience using Agile methods, 5+ years experience is preferred
- Advanced understanding of and experience with Software Development project life cycles, as well as advanced project management skills
- Impeccable communication and cross-team coordination skills
- Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required
- Master's degree and five to seven years experience, or a bachelor degree and seven to ten years experience in information technology
- Experience developing courseware, conference presentations, articles, and papers is preferred
Gear Stream - Making Software & Product Innovation Flow
The Gear Stream Mission
Gear Stream unlocks software and product development project work that is today throttled by functional silo's and blocked by slow and error prone hand-off transitions by helping companies transition to a model where continuous, adaptive, Lean based collaboration and Agile development software and product development flow happens.
The Gear Stream Approach
We teach, coach and supply teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
The Gear Stream Result
- Radically Improved Employee Motivation and Performance
- Greater Enterprise Agility: Enabling and Embracing course corrections at the last responsible moment
- Lean Operations: faster software and product development cycle time, productivity and quality
- Transparent and collaborative Enterprise Learning
- Increased Enterprise Innovation
- Accelerating profits and
- Improved Corporate Sustainability
Job Description:
This person will be dedicated to helping our customers explore, adopt and optimize Agile-lean processes, principles and practices.
This person will help coach our customers in the following Agile software development practices:
- writing user stories
- release and iteration planning
- Scrum stand-up meetings
- velocity and capacity planning
Will be responsible for providing user story workshop, facilitate project meetings and work with Project Managers to give them a solid foundation in Agile / Scrum methodology.
Will help develop, implement and maintain team metrics, evaluate team metrics and make recommendations to teams and management for improvements.
Will coach teams and management towards improving Agile process and metrics, evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams, and deliver training classes for product owners, developers and testers.
We are looking for not just an expert at Agile team coordination, but someone who also has the experience with the application of Agile principles to one or more development disciplines; analysis, design, development, testing and management; and can relate principles, practices and the 'rules-of thumb' of performing these disciplines in an Agile environment.
Qualifications:
- Strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentorship experience on several engagements / workshops
- 7-10 years in a technical software development environment or with IT Project Management
- Must have a solid background utilizing an "Agile" engineering approach to SW development. Examples of Agile SW development methods includes the following: SCRUM, Test To Design (TTD), Rapid Prototyping (Iterative) and Incremental approach to SW development
- Minimum 3+ years experience using Agile methods, 5+ years experience is preferred
- Advanced understanding of and experience with Software Development project life cycles, as well as advanced project management skills
- Impeccable communication and cross-team coordination skills
- Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required
- Master's degree and five to seven years experience, or a bachelor degree and seven to ten years experience in information technology
- Experience developing courseware, conference presentations, articles, and papers is preferre
- Financial Experience / Background is a PLUS
Gear Stream, Inc is currently looking for a Senior Agile Data Process Engineer for an immediate opportunity in the NY Metro area. Candidates do not have to be local, but must be willing to travel and work on location at a NY Metro client site. Qualified candidates will have extensive experience in the areas of data architecture, data modeling, data warehousing, data cleansing and process engineering with a solid Agile process background.
In this role you would be helping our client develop a new process to align their ‘data on-boarding’ processes with their Agile software
development processes. Primary responsibilities would include developing a process framework to transform the client’s DBA team away from a dependence on traditional ETL and RBDMS-centric solutions, while finding ways to reorganize their work into the same Agile cadence as the rest of the development teams.
To qualify for this role, you must have solid technical, hands-on data architecture skills AND process engineering skills AND Agile process skills. Specific technology stack knowledge is not required but will be considered a plus. Candidates must have extensive experience in data modeling, relational database design and development, data warehouse architecture, design and implementation, as well as applications development and programming.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentoring experience on several projects. Candidates must have experience coaching and mentoring software teams on Agile process transitions.
A minimum of 5+years experience using Agile methods is required.
Gear Stream - Making Software & Product Innovation Flow
The Gear Stream Mission
Gear Stream unlocks software and product development project work that is today throttled by functional silo's and blocked by slow and error prone hand-off transitions by helping companies transition to a model where continuous, adaptive, Lean based collaboration and Agile development software and product development flow happens.
The Gear Stream Approach
We teach, coach and supply teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
The Gear Stream Result
- Radically Improved Employee Motivation and Performance
- Greater Enterprise Agility: Enabling and Embracing course corrections at the last responsible moment
- Lean Operations: faster software and product development cycle time, productivity and quality
- Transparent and collaborative Enterprise Learning
- Increased Enterprise Innovation
- Accelerating profits
- Improved Corporate Sustainability
Responsibilities:
- managing Scrum Team project from conceptualization through implementation
- participating in frequent status meetings where the team members report to each other, commit to work and identify barriers
- building and maintaining big visible charts to show progress and status (e.g. the standard thermometer chart to show progress towards a numerical goal)
- implement designs guided by evolving customer requirements and third-party interface specifications
- use Agile methods and practices to develop engaging, market relevant software solution
- mentoring and coaching team members in the use of Scrum and XP
- managing all aspects of the project life-cycle including but not limited to project planning, resource planning, release planning, vendor management, and scope management
- maintain, communicate and escalate project critical path when appropriate
- create and manage project plans that address project approaches, deliverables, change management, resource and budget requirements, engineering and implementation schedules
Qualifications:
- MUST have a solid background utilizing an "Agile" engineering approach to SW development. Examples of Agile SW development methods includes the following: SCRUM, Test To Design (TTD), Rapid Prototyping (Iterative) and Incremental approach to SW development, preferably 2+ years as a Scrum Master
- strong understanding of both Agile and Traditional project management fundamentals and best practices
- minimum of 5 years experience Project Management with software development projects
- experience working in a "test-driven" manner (e.g. writing a document for a client where the client specifies acceptance criteria)
- must be able to identify "best practices" for institutionalization within an Agile Software Development environment(primarily operations and maintenance work)
- broad technical knowledge spanning applications, infrastructure, methodologies, and tools
- detailed experience in working with business partners, technology teams and customers in defining requirements and managing deliveries
- exceptional listening and communication skills with a strong ability to communicate business problems, alternatives and project strategy to a project team and customer groups
- must be facilitative, objective and team-oriented
- contract negotiation and vendor management experience is a PLUS
- experience with risk management and associated risk models is a PLUS
- Certified Scrum Master or Scrum Practitioner is a PLUS
- MUST be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be willing to embrace change
- must have excellent written and oral communication skills and strong presentation skills
- minimum of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems and seven to ten years experience
Gear Stream Seeks Business Development Executives for Dallas and New York
Want to Join a Disruptive, Enterprise Transformation Start-Up?
Gear Stream is a young, innovative, Enterprise Transformation Company focused on helping clients achieve two strategic objectives:
• Our first mission is helping clients achieve sustainable transformation around end-to-end Product and Software development by re-aligning the entire organization using Lean and Agile principals, processes and tools.
• Our second mission is displacing low value outsourcing models (Staff Augmentation and Global Body-Shopping) with on-demand, high yield, Agile Development capability that aligns and complements our clients own internal Agile teams. Unlike staffing and off-shoring, our clients pay only for production ready software features, not hours.
What We Seek Is A Gifted Business Development Executive Who Can Say YES to the Following:
• Are you a proven rain maker who is passionate about changing the way Enterprise firms innovate?
• Can you routinely identify, develop and close $5MM dollars of net-new client business each year?
• Are you are passionate about making a difference to your clients business and you “get” how business stake holders think?
• Do you know how to navigate around the inherent cultural software development roadblocks (Waterfall, RUP, etc.) within large and mid-size enterprise accounts?
• Can you help key business and senior IT stakeholders realize the benefits of Agile and Lean transformation that result in high velocity “just in time” software development.
• Do you have a track record of building a pipeline of meaningful and winnable domestic and global software development opportunities based on highly differentiated value propositions?
• Do you believe you can do this without taking 12-18 months to build your pipeline?
• Do you have a track record of taking IT Application Development Transformation and Outsourcing services across the finish line. In other words, can you do more than just find the opportunity?
• Can you grow the business beyond the first opportunity?
If You Answered Yes to the Questions Above, We Have the Following to Offer:
• A ground floor opportunity to help build an Enterprise Transformation Services Brand that helps clients sustainably innovate the way they identify, build and deploy new products and services.
• A culture that values teamwork and collaborative partnering as the ideal way of achieving great things for our company and for our clients.
• Unlimited earning potential based on acquiring and growing substantial new Enterprise clients
• Excellent Benefits
Whether you are an accomplished Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Transformation Practice Lead or someone who is a world class Agile software development professional, Gear Stream has a place for you to make a difference.
The Gear Stream Approach - Our goal is to teach, coach and supply client teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
Gear Stream is currently looking for experienced Scrum Practitioners/Trainers, both specifically in the NY Metro area and all along the East Coast, including Boston, MA, DC, Raleigh, NC, and Philadelphia, PA.
Candidates must be able to thrive in a fast-paced work environment and adapt to change. They will be responsible for implementing, supporting, and improving the Scrum Process for our organization within our current clientele.
Candidates will be managing Gear Stream's Agile initiatives and keeping current on new trends in other Agile practices and technology solutions designed to deliver technology solutions.
Will collaborate directly with scrum teams to coach and guide them on the mechanics of agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.
Will be delivering hands-on coaching of individual scrum teams in all aspects of scrum-daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, etc., and will assist in these meetings, as needed.
Will create, build and delives customized agile training and internal agile tools designed to enhance team collaboration to both internal teams and external customers.
Candidates will be responsible for exposing our technology teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the agile community to increase agility, as well as assisting with the rollout and training of new agile teams, as needed.
Candidates will be responsible for providing agile leadership coaching and training to ScrumMasters, Product Owners, functional managers and executives and facilitating general education sessions for non-development teams.
Will be assisting in the establishment, monitoring, and reporting of metrics and milestones for agile teams and ScrumMasters.
Qualifications - * Strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentorship experience on several engagements / workshops.
* Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required.
* Master's degree and seven+ years experience, or a bachelor degree and ten+ years experience in information technology.
* Experience developing courseware, conference presentations, articles, and papers is preferred.
* Minimum of 3+ years of large scale Agile coaching experience, hands-on and practical in nature.
* 10+ years project management experience in a software development environment.
* Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices, with the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization.
* Skilled in leading meetings, driving decisions, and negotiating win/win solutions.
* Strong track record of delivering projects on time and on budget
* MUST Have the following - Certified in: CSM, CSP, CST
Gear Stream - Making Software & Product Innovation Flow
The Gear Stream Mission
Gear Stream unlocks software and product development project work that is today throttled by functional silo's and blocked by slow and error prone hand-off transitions by helping companies transition to a model where continuous, adaptive, Lean based collaboration and Agile development software and product development flow happens.
The Gear Stream Approach
We teach, coach and supply teams the critical knowledge, skills and collaboration components needed to make a safe and successful transition to a continuous flow innovation life cycle. The components include building and connecting social collaboration communities and partners with synchronized, high velocity Agile development teams all of which are guided by a shared, Lean based framework for optimizing flow, managing risk and optimizing profits.
The Gear Stream Result
- Radically Improved Employee Motivation and Performance
- Greater Enterprise Agility: Enabling and Embracing course corrections at the last responsible moment
- Lean Operations: faster software and product development cycle time, productivity and quality
- Transparent and collaborative Enterprise Learning
- Increased Enterprise Innovation
- Accelerating profits
- Improved Corporate Sustainability
Gear Stream is looking for an exceptional Lean-Agile Process Change / Transformation Expert to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for training and supporting teams in the adoption of Agile management and engineering practices to enable successful multi-project delivery. This is an excellent opportunity to work ‘hands on’ with client executives and development teams.
The successful candidate will provide strategic direction for high-priority, high-profile internal projects and programs. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:
· Work with various groups to motivate and ensure timelines are met and problems are resolved should they arise, as well as lead multi-functional core teams through process and deliverables utilizing the Agile methodology and framework
· Offer expertise in streamlining internal processes in multiple technological areas
· Business Process Management
· Negotiation and planning/scheduling of process/content adjustments necessary to realize benefits of recommended improvements
- Organizes, plans and ensures the execution of all program components and deliverables through core and extended team members
· Work with Project Managers, Business Analysts and other internal resources towards project / transformation completion
· Establishment of influential cross-group relationships that amplify messaging and ensure recommendations are instituted
· Negotiation and planning/scheduling of process/content adjustments necessary to realize benefits of recommended improvements
· Work with development and management teams to ensure that process efficiency is effectively measured
· Ownership of program customer/partner satisfaction assessment and analysis
· Evangelize and help develop organizational change management self-sustaining capability
- Focus on Knowledge Worker Collaborations, like software or product development, utilizing Lean / Agile methodogies
Requirements include:
· Ideal candidate should be able to step into this high level role to lead several Agile Scrum Masters (over many product lines, product groups)
· Minimum of 8 - 10 years experience in technology, to include project or program management, business processes, technical design, or related application, web or
database development experience
· Minimum of 5 years experience in managing projects in a technical environment, expert knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 5-10 years in Technical Program Management
- Must have worked on a minimum of 4-5 Agile implementations, experience with Agile methodologies and Practices (e.g. test-driven development, feature-driven development, continuous integration, user stories, Scrum)
· Must be comfortable and articulate in challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert self and when to fade back, individual must be an excellent listener with outstanding facilitation and conflict resolution skills
· Must be persuasive and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level
· Must have experience leading organizational change management, including excellent facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, as well as outstanding presentation and public speaking skills
- Must be familiar with Demand Management, IT Ops & SDLC and/or Product Development utilizing Lean & Agile methodologies
- Demonstrated experience in driving cross-group continual improvement initiatives
- Contextual awareness of multi-dimensional interfaces between business trajectory, cultural readiness, process implementation, automation and business intelligence
- Able to demonstrate success leveraging a shared prioritization framework
- Mastery of business requirements documentation required
- Experience with working with hardware groups, as well as in the software development life-cycle including maintenance, administration and management
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