About This Role
The Agile Coach drives program success by overseeing governance, compliance, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence across various portfolios. This role ensures alignment with central Agile Coach standards, facilitates effective communication, and supports project teams in delivering value through structured processes and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Coach and mentor agile teams
- Assess Agile maturity and enable continuous team improvement
- 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 Launch
- Execute Kaizens in ART release 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
- 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 help introduce or improve Agile mindset, practices, and tools
- Lead the development of a culture where development team 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 Practices (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 / equivalent
- SPC Certified Mandatory
- Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean, and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation)
- Coaching skills at different levels of the organization (Portfolio, ART, and Teams) and Leadership
- Aware of and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training, and coaching tools and models, and knows when to apply them
