Agile Coach

SUMMARY:
Coaching project teams and individual team members in the use of Agile methods, practices and tools.

POSITION INFO:

RESOURCES COMPETENCIES AND SKILL

Coach and enable the adoption of Agile in small, medium less complex projects, including -

• Reviewing the approved companies portfolio to determine which projects should follow Agile methodology.
• Coaching project teams and individual team members in the use of Agile methods, practices and tools.
• Facilitating planning, daily stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews including demos, and retrospectives for each project.
• Managing dependencies between project teams, third parties and other internal teams.
• Enabling the removal of obstacles to project delivery.
• Escalating delivery issues and risks as they arise.
• Validating the use of standard testing practices by project teams to ensure quality.
• Agreeing project measures of success for Agile adoption with project team, monitor and evaluate project performance against these and report outcomes to BPPM Capability Manager.
• Building and maintaining relationships, and facilitate engagements, with internal and/or external project stakeholders

Qualification

Minimum 3 year degree/diploma in relevant discipline

Fluent in English

Experience

Minimum of 2 years’ experience -

Minimum 1 year managing system development lifecycle projects

Minimum of 1 year using Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, Scaling)

Working in software or systems development in an agile environment

Supervising project team

Working in a medium organization

Experience in a telecommunications environment is advantageous but not essential

Certification in -

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or PRINCE2 Foundation

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) or equivalent

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