Job Description
The Agile Coach (AC) will responsible for:
Overseeing the agile practices and maturity plan of 3-5 Agile Squads
Shape and define agile maturity assessment criteria and assess squads, providing them with a rating and an improvement plan
Coaching Agile mindset and practices to tightening up elements such as ceremonies, reporting, estimation and user stories
Improving agile adoption within the squads, as well as embedding and enforcing agile adoption
At squad level, AC will also act as an impediment buster so that squad can deliver with minimum blockers
Coach squad members on areas of improvement against a specified assessment criteria
Agile Coach will help SMs to facilitate and plan all the Scrum events; Sprint planning, Retrospective, Sprint review, Daily stand up, Backlog refinement.
Help to shape the enterprise agile agenda and overall plan, including leadership engagement and education
Drive the education and adoption of the SAFe framework, including running PI planning, supporting POs with product roadmaps and backlog development in prep for PI planning
Run scrum of scrums to support SMs in a RTE capacity
Define, assemble and communicate portfolio level reporting for Squads and the ART
Mentoring Scrum Masters on Agile best practice and produce a development plan and learning curriculum
RequirementsKey Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Work with Squads to build a trust and collaboration mindset among stakeholders so everyone can make decisions together as a group & create compelling customer propositions
Support Product Owners to make vital solution decisions that keep delivery moving forward.
Coach squads to transition away from waterfall and more towards a product delivery
Facilitate estimation and prioritization techniques – e.g. planning poker to size user stories
Work with SA and IT to plan and manage releases and proactively plan forward looking sprint plan with indicative sprint goals and MVP releases
Job Description
Promote a test as you go process to ensure that customer value is delivered frequently via product increments of potentially shippable code
Support the PO with customer demos, CUG and customer launch activities
Conduct Agile Basics training and team set up for squads – sprint 0 mobilization
Facilitation Scrum Events:
o Sprint planning
o Retrospective
o Sprint review
o Daily stand up
o Backlog refinement
o Customer demos (show and tell)
Help squads in improving Agile Maturity (velocity, backlog health, burn-down, flow)
Facilitate backlog refinement support for PO and BA to ensure rich detail in user stories through education of Squads on how to create user stories as well as craft a product roadmap
Stitch design – UX-UI, copywriters into the requirements and development process
Help build predictability in Squads, so that teams can know each other’s velocity and outputs
Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
Escalate impediments in a timely manner to minimize disruption to the development team
Ensure that tools such as JIRA are up-to-date and complete, inc. communicating metrics to the squad and wider stakeholders to monitor and manage team performance
Self-assess the squad against agile maturity framework criteria, as well as take recommendations from external assessment and take ownership of implementing the improvement actions
Establish strong relationships with stakeholders / PO to understand strategic, tactical and operational challenges in Business
BenefitsSkills / Competencies
Lives Agile values and is an Agile process champion for the Bank
Enterprise level planning and execution
Coaching mindset
Written/verbal communication
Impediment resolution at a portfolio level
Risk anticipation and resolution
Analytical ability – presentation
Design thinking mindset
Negotiation/conflict management
