Agile Coach - 6-month renewable contract

Key responsibilities:

• Coach and drive squads and key stakeholders towards complying with the organization’s agile systems development methodology and agile ways of working by spearheading a mindset and behavior change, advocating agile and lean values and principles, and promoting and applying best practices
• Identify organizational impediments and dependencies restricting productivity, efficiency, and continuous delivery of customer value and propose creative, balanced, and applicable initiatives, execution plans, and success metrics together with justifications including real life examples and accurate data
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, set strategic goals and milestones for squads, projects and programs to boost their capability in agile ways of working, put plans into effect, measure outcomes and take corrective actions, and mentor them to continuously climb up in agile maturity
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, project managers, system analysts, technical delivery managers, tribe leads, and chapter leads to discuss and improve health, quality and value delivery of projects and programs by providing comprehensive advice ranging from backlog refinement, quality user story creation and sprint retrospective to feature planning, program retrospective and scaling agile
• Work with multiple squads to assess current systems and processes, work on a strategy for enhanced adoption of agile ways of working, and ensure all squad, project and program level agile events are conducted on time with correct audiences, having the purpose of identifying key pain points and solving real-world problems
• Pinpoint areas of improvement, create and maintain engaging training materials, lead workshops and training sessions both virtual and in-person for squads and key stakeholders, track and monitor attendance and participation, and follow up with improvement actions to make sure a long-lasting positive impact is made towards a heightened level of agility
• Contribute to creation and utilization/implementation of agile delivery metrics, surveys, observations, polls, and heatmaps for continuous measurement of agile performance and maturity, and help squads to take corresponding refinement actions
• Encourage and assist squads and stakeholders in correct usage of tools such as Jira and Confluence, and help find ways to protect the integrity and quality of the data entered

Key Skills:

• Scaling Agile and Agile Coaching at scale (significant experience in coaching more than 1 squad)
• First class MS PowerPoint knowledge along with enhanced presentation skills to prepare and deliver concise and effective slides to complex audiences
• Highly competent (admin level knowledge and experience) in commonly used productivity tools such as JIRA and Confluence, and good knowledge of DevOps processes and tools such as CI/CD, Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins and similar