Agile Coach

Description

-Serve as a change agent who influences mind-set and behaviors and demonstrates courage to challenge, advise, and coach teams
-Partners with Program Agile Coach to engage with and coach teams through a journey of maturation through direct coaching, connecting them with experts, or suggesting peer guidance where necessary while maintaining unbiased perspective when facilitating team conversations in order to encourage shared opinions and support psychological safety.

-Foster and encourage a culture of agility, continuous improvement and quality assurance at both the team and enterprise levels.

-Employ coaching techniques to help teams and to address gaps in the delivery processes, with a heavy focus on and high technical aptitude for TDD, BDD, XP, secure coding principles and practices, pair programming, CI/CI pipeline, and automated testing.

-Prepare material and assist with presentations and written communications to aid in training and education of team members and stakeholders.

-Develop Agile Adoption Strategy:
The Agile Coach is responsible for designing a strategy for the adoption and scaling of Agile. This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.

-Educate Colleagues:
The Agile Coach must educate employees on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the adoption of Agile methodologies. This includes providing Agile thought leadership.

-Mentor Team:
As a mentor, the Agile Coach is responsible for guiding teams on the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and answering questions. They provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile.

-Implement Agile Methodology:
Develop Agile processes, including analysis of existing processes, elicitation of user stories from subject matter experts, and application of industry best practices and standards. This task entails implementing Agile process, principles and practices across all levels and departments in the organization. The Agile Coach must use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of innovation. In order to do this, the Agile Coach must also embody the Agile principles and lead by example.

-Additional

Activities:

Motivate teams to adopt practices by showing problems with the status quo, explaining the benefits of new practices and principles, and understanding and overcoming perceived obstacles to adoption. Help teams form new work habits with hands-on coaching, collaborative partnership, and feedback.

-Facilitate positive change by providing advice and input on technical direction, tools and processes to help demonstrate the value of agile based development.

- Drive improvement through examples and practical, achievable in a non-academic delivery style that encourages the adoption of agile technical practices, improving execution, communication and concurrently building group skills and capabilities.

- Promote appropriate metrics to demonstrate that good practices are taking hold.

Skills

Agile, scrum, Kanban, jira, devops, Development, behavior driven development, test driven development, xp, ci/cd, paired programming

Top Skills Details

Agile,scrum,Kanban,jira,devops,Development

Additional

Skills & Qualifications

Certified Team Coach or Agile Certified Professional preferred

Experience with Pair Programming preferred Growth mindset/proven ability to quickly learn and practically apply new concepts, principles, technical and business knowledge.

- Team player with excellent interpersonal skills, big-picture view, and able to work well with peer coaches.

- Proven ability to initiate the sharing of knowledge and experiences to facilitate continuous improvement.

- Strong initiative and organizational skills to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

- Oral and written communication skills, with proven experience leading and facilitating team meetings and work sessions with technical and non-technical participants at all levels of the organization - Strong coaching and facilitation skills such as building trust, creating psychological safety, and consensus building.

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Kansas City, MO.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $95.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:  - Medical, dental & vision
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