About This Role
This role involves guiding and developing agile teams and leaders within the organization, fostering continuous improvement and the adoption of agile practices. The Agile Coach will assess team maturity, train key personnel, and facilitate various SAFe workshops to enhance efficiency. The position suits a candidate with a strong background in agile frameworks and a passion for building a culture of continuous delivery.
Responsibilities
- Coach and mentor agile teams
- Assess agile maturity and enable teams to continuously improve
- Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices
- Identify, analyze, and map value streams
- Map OKRs/organization goals to execution at Portfolio, ART, and Team Levels
- Facilitate ART Launches
- Execute Kaizens in ART releases for efficiency improvement
- Work with leadership to establish a Lean Portfolio Management group
- Conduct Big Room trainings, brainstorming sessions, and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment
- Define revised organizational structure based on Agile principles
- Manage stakeholders, influence and run project governance, change management, and benefits realization
- Model Agile behavior and mindset, and coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team members
- Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to introduce and improve Agile mindset, practices, and tools
- Lead the development of a culture where development teams and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices
- Conduct team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in Agile teams
- Apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
- Actively scan the external environment to stay abreast of and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts, and capabilities
- Set up and drive Communities of Practice (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization
Requirements
- Overall 10-15 years of total experience, including significant experience as a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching
- Full-time MBA, Engineering, or equivalent degree
- Solid exposure to product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment
- Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams
- Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
