Agile Coach
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Location: Atlanta, GA 30349
Description:
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
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 how to 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.
- ssist 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.
- 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 environmentStrong 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 titleAble 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 life cycle Experience implementing value-based prioritization frameworks Track record of successfully managing organizational change in environments with entrenched practices
- Certification as agile coach or scrum master.
- Experience in coaching at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies.
- Educational background in computer science, business management, and/or project management.
- Previous management experience.