Job Description
Position: Agile Coach
Description:
Objectives of this role: - Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices.
- Guide teams in how to stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning their approach to ensure that overall strategy is being met.
- Lead agile workshops for people of various technical disciplines, as well as for key stakeholders.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and assigning responsibility.
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset, and ensure the organization is adhering to industry best practices.
- Work directly with Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and the PMO to nurture a healthy and productive agile environment.
Responsibilities: - Facilitate learning and development among employees through individual and team coaching.
- Coach senior managers in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from the top down.
- Communicate agile principles, scrum practices, and overall operating model across the organization.
- Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures by teams.
- Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met.
- Maintain objectivity regarding issues and troubleshoot them by applying agile principles.
- Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status.
- Support leadership in understanding and participating in good agile practices.
- Facilitate the development of working agreements between teams and departments to improve cross-functional collaboration.
- Guide the organization in implementing structured prioritization frameworks based on business value.
- Assist in establishing clear escalation paths and practices to reduce workflow interruptions.
- Help teams develop strategies for managing technical debt within agile frameworks.
- Support the formation and maintenance of stable teams with clear ownership boundaries.
Requirements: Location Requirements: - Must be able to work onsite at our Downtown Atlanta office located at West Peachtree.
- Must be accessible and local to the Metro Atlanta area.
- Hybrid Work Schedule - 3 days onsite.
Required Skills and Qualifications: - Five or more years of experience as agile coach.
- Experience in using scrum, kanban, and knowledge of how agile scales best.
- Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments.
- Experience in running agile projects of varying size and complexity, even in a hybrid waterfall environment.
- Strong skills for leading, educating, and coaching.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Heightened personal skills to resolve conflicts and enable people of different skills to work well together.
- Ability to work directly with people in any position, regardless of technical skill or title.
- Able to recognize antpatterns within team dynamics and proactively work to avoid or remove them.
- Experience breaking down organizational silos and improving collaboration between development and operations teams.
- Demonstrated success in shifting organizations from reactive to proactive approaches.
- Knowledge of techniques for integrating quality assurance throughout the development lifecycle.
- Experience implementing value-based prioritization frameworks.
- Track record of successfully managing organizational change in environments with entrenched practices.
Benefits: Job Duration: Long Term
Work Model: Hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, flexible remote)
Team Collaboration: Opportunity to work directly with senior managers, Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and PMO on large-scale projects.
Continuous Improvement: Play a key role in cultural transformation and personal development within an agile environment.
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