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Agile Coach

Job Title: Agile Coach
Contract Type: Contract
Location: Berkshire, England
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
REF: WM/CONTRACT/AC_1540377628
Contact Name: Warren Moore
Contact Email: warren.moore@projectpeople.com
Job Published: over 5 years ago

Job Description

Our client, a leading telecoms organisation are currently seeking an experienced Agile Coach to work as part of a major transformation programme.

You will form part of a team responsible for coaching and mentoring behaviours and practices, running training sessions & workshops and helping to prepare teams for large scale planning events that will enable the successful delivery of a Business Transformation in a sustainable manner.

With a proven track record of helping teams continuously improve as a Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach, your responsibilities will include:

  • Driving adoption of improvements, enhancing business agility and enabling teams to self-improve.
  • Coaching teams in the benefits of the Agile ways of working and in how they can leverage the approach.
  • Providing support and coaching to the organisation to promote the use of appropriate Lean and Agile techniques
  • Working with teams to build in frequent feedback loops to identify constraints, bottlenecks and pain points.
  • Applying Lean Product Development principles across the organisation.
  • Conduct low-cost experiments to validate assumptions and produce actionable information.
  • Facilitate Communities of Practice for continuing development and knowledge sharing.
  • Deliver Agile capability services by ensuring healthy application of Agile practices.

Previous knowledge and experience will include:

  • Identifying issues and constraints through close interactions with the delivery teams and working to resolve them.
  • Being able to lead, make decisions, problem solve and work within teams.
  • Experience with process improvement, methodology improvement, analysis and monitoring.
  • Being able to contribute to the development of strategies (and/or service strategies) within the coaching service.
  • Experience of operating within a model of Agile delivery at scale (SAFe, DAD, Nexus, LeSS).
  • Experienced user of Atlassian toolset.

If you're interested in applying please apply via this site in the first instance or send an updated CV to warren.moore@projectpeople.com

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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