Agile Coach

Overview

The Agile Coach engages with teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization to promote Agile and Lean thinking across the enterprise. Plays a critical role in training and coaching teams and/or leadership on agile values principles practices and tools. Facilitates cross-team and cross-departmental alignment collaboration and learning. The role serves as a trusted consultant helping teams and/or leadership apply Agile practices and tools based on each situation's unique context.

What You Will Be Doing

• Evangelize agile values and principles across the organization to influence teams and programs
• Assist teams and/or programs in designing methods of visualizing and collaboratively managing their work
• Assist teams and/or programs in designing feedback mechanisms to promote frequent learning and adaptation
• Help team/program leaders address systemic impediments that constrict the flow of value through teams
• Bring industry knowledge into the company and conduct experiments to learn what works and what doesn't in our environment
• Facilitate moderately complex and/or team level meetings for purposes of idea generation, planning, retrospecting, problem solving and alignment
• Provide guidance to leadership on team and/or program composition and alignment based on organizational needs/changes
• Design and facilitate training classes and workshops
• Operate as a trusted advisor on issues and trends; provide general consulting services leveraging expertise and significant best practice knowledge
• Mentor, coach and train other team members
  
  
  

What Will Make You Successful

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Advanced experience as an agile practitioner
• Strong competency functioning in a leadership role (s) such as scrum master, product owner, project manager or technical leader
• Strong oral and written communication skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact with others with discretion and tact
• Strong Critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Strong conflict management, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong Collaborative skills, applied successfully within team as well as other areas
• Strong business and technology acumen
• Self-driven learner with the ability to coach others
• Ability to teach Agile concepts and apply practices in a context-sensitive manner
• Act as a servant leader to project teams-open minded, listens, empathizes, influences without formal authority and thinks beyond the day to day activities
• Demonstrated ability to influence, motivate and mobilize team members and business partners
• Demonstrated ability to develop and use engaging, informative and compelling presentation methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to operate at the highest level of integrity, professionalism, and forthrightness
• Up to 10% travel time required