Agile Coach Jobs

Job Details:

Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices

· Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met

· Lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders

· Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them

· Extend related Agile concepts to the organization including Value Stream Identification, Product Centricity, Organizational Change Management and Lean Portfolio Management

· Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices

Responsibilities

· Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching

· Facilitate agile process knowledge to all team members at the outset of the initiative

· Identify and diagnose agile process issues and work with the teams to remediate

· Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down as well as navigating the cultural and mindset changes inherent in Agile frameworks

· Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization

· Mentor Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Development Team members as advocates of agile concepts, focusing on the delivery of value

· Facilitate and coordinate adoption of Agile practices within concepts of Value Streams, Products, Organizational Change Management and Portfolio planning.

· Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams

· Keep an objective perspective on issues and troubleshoot by applying agile principles

Skills:

·5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach in an environment that scaled work across multiple teams

· 5+ years of experience managing enterprise projects and programs, with a focus either on application delivery or project management

· Experience in coaching teams using Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Scrum at Scale, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Kanban, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

· Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments

· Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity