Job Description
Job Title: Agile Coach
Job Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Job Duration: Long Term
Job Description:
Location Requirements
- Must be able to work onsite at our Downtown Atlanta office located at West Peachtree
- Must be accessible and local to the Metro Atlanta area.
- Hybrid Work Schedule - 3 days onsite.
Objectives of this role
- Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices
- Guide teams in how to stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning their approach to ensure that overall strategy is being met
- Lead agile workshops for people of various technical disciplines, as well as for key stakeholders
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and assigning responsibility
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset, and ensure the organization is adhering to industry best practices
- Work directly with Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and the PMO to nurture a healthy and productive agile environment
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
- Assist 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
Required skills and qualifications
- 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 environment
- Strong 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 title
- Able 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 lifecycle
- Experience implementing value-based prioritization frameworks
- Track record of successfully managing organizational change in environments with entrenched practices.
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