Hands on coaching and teaching for new teams including how to perform key Agile ceremonies such as planning sessions and daily stand ups and how to effectively utilize Agile artefacts such as product backlogs
Lead agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other framing activities
Identify and raise challenges and obstacles, and work collaboratively with the Centre of Excellence and coaches to resolve them
Enable teams to realize their mission and deliver on their KPI Anticipate and resolve or escalate potential blockers, e.g., resource constraints or skill gaps, that prevent the team from doing its best work
Ensure that teams are interacting with dependent stakeholders effectively
Observe and engage with individual team members to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance
Perform maturity assessments to baseline team performance and identify opportunities for improvement
Providing ongoing training and resources to equip team members with practices to enhance their Agile maturity
Embed a culture of continuous improvement within each team
Establish self-sufficient coaching expertise and support within Client
Providing mentoring and training for client Agile Coaches
Participate in the Agile Coach community groups to share best practices and ways of working
Collaborate with the Agile COE to recommend, test, and establish practices and principles for Agile at scale 3
Provide continuous feedback on the Client operating model and practices from both prior experience and observations from ongoing implementation and coaching
Coach experience
Experience in coaching Agile teams through the adoption of agile practices in multiple prior engagements
Experience in one or more large scale Agile transformation programs within multinational finance organizations
Deep background in coaching and developing people and teams, influencing behaviour change and establishing sustainability through cultural change
Experience coaching agile teams across business and technology, aligning teams with business KPI to drive value
Coach characteristics
Are strong change agents and can influence mind set and behaviours, including those of senior leaders
Love coaching and supporting people to adjust to and embrace changes to their ways of working
Are passionate about Agile principles and are excited to embed them across the organization
Apply innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done
Are intellectually curious and love learning new skills and capabilities, e.g., Agile principles
Are courageous and will be comfortable challenging, advising, and coaching Product Owners, Pilot Leads and Senior Leadership
Job Skills:
Agile Coach
Minimum Experience:
11 Yrs
Education
Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering, preferably Computer Science/Engineering.