GM - Agile Coach

Role

Agile Coach

Job Level/ Designation 

M3

Function / Department

Digital 

Location

Mumbai

Job Purpose

• The Agile Coach is responsible for leading and evangelizing the organization-wide agile transformation, motivating and energizing the organization through employment of agile technique

• This role is responsible for driving and supporting the adoption of an agile mind set, methodologies, and behaviors in all members of the organization

• This role is responsible for working closely with key agile team members, such as the Agile Program Manager, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Product Managers to establish consistent and best-practice agile processes and principles

• This role is responsible for defining agile adoption and performance metrics, monitoring and assessing them regularly, and identifying areas for improvement

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

• Evangelize the organization-wide agile transformation and guide the organization through its agile journey and maturity

• Define and refine organization’s agile principles, practices, standards and ceremonies, according to both best practice and enterprise goals

• Mentor and coach all levels of the organization on agile principles, practices, roles, artefacts and ceremonies to maintain consistency of adoption and continuously improve performance

• Define agile adoption measurements and evaluate and report the performance and adherence of the organization on a regular basis

• Act as a catalyst to seed emerging practices & knowledge from one team to another

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader and change agent who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders

• Natural “servant” leader, with the ability to develop and communicate the objectives, inspire, coach, and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business outcome vision

• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community

• A high degree of apolitical sensitivity, with effective persuasion, negotiation, and

• dependency resolution skills, both within and outside the domain

• Strong business acumen, including with an in-depth understanding of the contribution of the domain or business outcome to the wider digital business strategy and roadmap

• Ability to contextualize the wider business and financial goals to the domain and make decisions, prioritization, and recommendations accordingly

• Excellent collaboration skills

• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls

• Agile software development environment and methods such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD and BDD

• Scaled Agile experiences and expertise in frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, DAD or Spotify

• Agile ceremonies, tools, and artefacts e.g. retrospectives, demos, increment planning, information radiators

• User story definition and team backlog management and estimation

Must have technical / professional qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field

• Seven or more years of  experience as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or Product Owner with agile teams

• At least three years of agile coaching in large delivery organizations

• Extensive experience leading teams using agile methodologies

• At least 3 years of experience working with scaled agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, DAD, Spotify)

• Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or similar

• Extensive experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD

• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry strongly preferred

Years of Experience

Min. 7-10 years of total work experience

Industries to look from

FMCG, BFSI, Telco, Large IT services companies

Ideal Organizations to look from

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