Published: Nov 20, 2024 – The Agile Coach enhances Agile practices to foster innovation, rapid delivery, and continuous improvement while promoting methodology sustainment and pragmatism. This position develops and delivers training on Agile awareness, roles, ceremonies, Lean processes, and continuous improvement, coaching teams to build on existing Agile successes. The coach also collaborates with leadership and cross-functional teams to optimize performance, identify risks, and implement actions that elevate Agile maturity and align practices with strategic business objectives.
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1. Agile Coach, Global Software Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Use a blend of agile frameworks at a team and enterprise level such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAfE, LeSS
- Building and coaching multiple teams across a range of agile maturity from beginner to high-performing
- Coach and train leadership, teams, and various agile roles toward a value and outcome mindset
- Focus on performance and team agile maturity metrics which enable ongoing tracking and growth of teams operating in agile
- Focus on building operating model interfaces between agile and non-agile parts of the organization
- Codify agile ways of working for teams to enable teams to have a consistent approach towards agility as they start on their agile journey
- Build an end-to-end customer and business value-driving mindset and culture
- Drive engineering practices with “technical teams” using DevOps and agile accelerators toward a continuous improvement mindset
- Facilitate agile ceremonies/ events at an enterprise level for agile at scale such as Big Room planning, Quarterly Business review, etc.
- Empower leadership teams in building, growing, and sustaining thriving agile teams
- Facilitate workshops, boot camps, training, and sessions at the team and organizational level
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Frameworks (Hard Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Leadership Training (Soft Skills)
- Performance Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Process Integration (Hard Skills)
- Agile Codification (Hard Skills)
- Value Mindset (Soft Skills)
- DevOps (Hard Skills)
2. Agile Coach, Tech Innovations LLC, San Diego, CA
Job Summary:
- Guide the teams and the Organization in implementing Scrum and Agile applying the practices and living up to its values
- Offer new tools and techniques to promote a healthy group dynamic
- Support and educate all team members, from core responsibilities to the usage of Agile practices
- Make sure that teams work together effectively
- Make the individual employees as well as the various teams aware of their strengths and weaknesses to develop a collective Agile mindset
- Provide all support to the teams by role-modeling the servant leadership style
- Coach the teams to higher levels of maturity
- Forecast releases by using several agile release planning techniques built on transparency
- Foster a culture with a healthy drive to deliver great products
- Work closely with Engineering Managers & Product Owners to continually review and evolve the way of working
- Act in the role of Scrum Master for one or more delivery teams, facilitating ceremonies and removing impediments as they arise
- Introduce and capture metrics to help teams understand their performance and identify areas for improvement
Skills on Resume:
- Scrum & Agile Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Team Dynamics (Soft Skills)
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Self-Awareness & Development (Soft Skills)
- Servant Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Release Planning (Hard Skills)
- Performance Metrics (Hard Skills)
3. Agile Coach, Smart Systems Inc., Orlando, FL
Job Summary:
- Chip into the establishment of DNA-wide guidelines and develop a training curriculum for the organization
- Transform the teams (with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts) toward more sophisticated usage of Agile principles and practices
- Provide facilitation, hands-on coaching, guiding, and mentoring that will increase a demeanor
- Help to develop the product owners in the organization towards better practices (esp. exacting prioritization, writing user stories, handling expectations)
- Strengthen self-organization, teamwork, and management of teams by evangelizing ceremonies (daily’s, planning, retrospective, demos) and practices
- Identify agile champions and develop them to scale agile impact in the DNA organization
- Actively identify impediments and work across the organization to remove them
- Providing support to the team by use of servant leadership and leading by example to drive the health of a DNA organization
- Drive the continued adoption of Agile practices and culture change across the Product and Technology team and business stakeholders
- Be the in-house expert on Agile development methods, working with leadership to set a clear vision and then working directly with teams to enact change
- Assess the current delivery practices across the organization and devise a transformation plan to take the delivery to the next level
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Transformation (Hard Skills)
- Coaching & Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Product Owner Development (Soft Skills)
- Team Empowerment (Soft Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Servant Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Agile Culture Adoption (Soft Skills)
- Delivery Assessment & Planning (Hard Skills)
4. Agile Coach, Digital Pathways, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Coach and teach stakeholders across different streams to improve and grow their skills
- Gather feedback and continuously improve through active stakeholder engagement
- Actively develop and run agile-related training and capability-building programs
- Support coordination and facilitate synchronization
- Develop and monitor metrics to track the progress of overall Agile Maturity
- Identify team dysfunction and develop strategies to deal with it
- Demonstrate an agile mindset in everything you do and exemplify the principles and values of agile software development
- Organize, run, and facilitate events and rituals that support the squad in inspection, adaption, continuous improvement, and delivering working, valuable software early and often
- Teach, mentor, and consult the squad and individual members on practices, techniques, and tools that help them achieve greater agility
- Coach the squad on how to identify and resolve or escalate impediments that get in the way of their vision, mission, and goals
- Work with the global Agile Coaches Chapter to exchange ideas, share successes, learn from failures, and promote organizational agility
Skills on Resume:
- Stakeholder Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Feedback & Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Agile Training (Hard Skills)
- Coordination & Synchronization (Soft Skills)
- Agile Maturity Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Dysfunction Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Agile Mindset (Soft Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
5. Agile Coach, Agile Transformation Partners, Dallas, TX
Job Summary:
- Understand the agile framework, custom team-flows, and different agile practices from the market and help them choose the ones that fit their need
- Achieve company objectives within agreed boundaries
- Integrate the way of working defined by each group or general engineering practices in daily team workflow
- Making sure that the flows, ceremonies, and working agreements made by the team are providing the expected valuable outcomes
- Gather relevant metrics and data for the team to analyze to make informed decisions and adopt new practices.
- Help the team identify the impediments and have a common understanding of them - always know the team's top impediments
- Find and implement the strategy for resolving or limiting the impact of the impediments.
- Solve day-by-day inter-team impediments and facilitate solution-finding with the management or other teams, whilst enabling the autonomy and alignment of each team
- Focusing on collaboration (inter and intra-team) and increasing teamwork
- Works with other agile coaches to find long-term strategies for better inter-team collaboration and results
- Implements agile projects and agility chapter agreements within the teams that he/she coaches
- Assuring that the team has mastery, purpose, and autonomy, in their work
- Creating a safe zone in the team for challenging ideas, practices, and decisions
- Empowering the team to find their best way of achieving company and team objectives.
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Framework Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Objective Achievement (Soft Skills)
- Workflow Integration (Hard Skills)
- Outcome Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Decision Making (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Identification and Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Empowerment and Autonomy (Soft Skills)
6. Agile Coach, NextGen Technologies, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Effectively communicate agile principles, SCRUM practices, and overall operating model and build trust with key stakeholders
- Assist the team in assessing and evolving their ‘Agile and SCRUM Maturity’ and developing a program for the progression of each company and individual squad
- Educate and evangelize regular SCRUM ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily-Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Foster agile best practices and a culture of relentless improvement among the SCRUM team
- Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across the product team particularly around success metrics on the product development
- Daily follow-ups with individual team members to remove impediments/blockers for the SCRUM team.
- Assist the Product Owners to make sure the product backlogs are always being groomed and ready for the next sprint
- Protect SCRUM teams and maintain focus on backlog and sprint timeline
- Work with management to escalate problems encountered on/among the SCRUM team, help remove impediments to progress
- On-going hands-on formal or informal training of agile principles, methods, and practices
- Bring awareness to organizational impediments to the agility
- Develop and execute action plans to remove organizational impediments
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Communication (Soft Skills)
- SCRUM Maturity Assessment (Hard Skills)
- SCRUM Ceremony Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Metrics & Success Measurement (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Product Backlog Management (Hard Skills)
- Organizational Agility Awareness (Soft Skills)
7. Agile Coach, Synergy Solutions Group, Miami, FL
Job Summary:
- Design the roadmap for every stage of agile maturity, from current to target state.
- Work with senior executive management to help them to understand new ways of working and organizing themselves.
- Assist them in understanding modern agile and lean practices used by successful agile organizations.
- Executive coaching across key dynamics of business agility as well as coaching IT executives towards agile technical delivery.
- Guide managers from a style of “managing” to leadership.
- Facilitate teams and individuals through difficult conversations.
- Work with IT groups such as Enterprise Architecture and PMOs to understand how they need to adapt.
- Bring expertise on practices in these areas such as modern compensation and rewards systems, agile budgeting, rolling wave planning, agile procurement, and agile marketing.
- Design the organizational structure which includes cross-functional, stable teams aligned to value streams or lines of business.
- Define organizational agile measures and metrics.
- Work with team coaches to overcome challenges, and provide effective collaboration strategies.
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Maturity Roadmap Design (Hard Skills)
- Executive Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Agile Practices Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Development (Soft Skills)
- Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)
- IT Organizational Adaptation (Hard Skills)
- Organizational Structure Design (Hard Skills)
- Metrics and Measurement (Hard Skills)
8. Agile Coach, Velocity Consulting, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Educate and coach Application Development teams and leadership on Agile/Shoregile
- Identify team and leadership challenges or opportunities that are hindering the team’s ability to execute work in an agile manner
- Develop and execute actionable continuous improvement strategies that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the team’s ability to deliver
- Hold Inspect and Adapt meetings to ensure strategies are producing the outcomes expected
- Operate in an Agile Framework to deliver the top priority Agile Learning Topics to all of Information Technology
- Conduct Agile coaching sessions with teams and stakeholders on Agile Practices (Scrum, Lean, and Kanban) to improve their Agile thinking and Scrum processes
- Develop Agile Adoption Strategy, from the introduction of Agile to fostering teams and cultures sustaining Agile methodologies
- Monitor the improvement of productivity and quality in team measures
- Gather feedback and continuously improve Agile guidance, training materials, and content
- Help existing digital squads and key scrum team individuals (Product Owners and Scrum Masters) adopt and improve agile methods and practice.
- Helps and is responsible for the strategic application of agile methods within the digital squads. Serve as a mentor to a new, inexperienced Scrum Master or team.
- Guide the organization through the transition process from functioning as a traditional organization to an agile one.
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Inspect and Adapt Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Agile Learning Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Agile Practices Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Agile Adoption Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Productivity and Quality Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Scrum Mentorship (Soft Skills)
9. Agile Coach, Evolution Enterprises, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Help organizations realize the benefits of agility by providing team-level agile coaching
- Design, advise, and promote strategic agile direction and transformations in partnership with organizational leaders
- Facilitate agile training sessions (slideware and/or experiential learning) on agile principles, mindset, and common ways to put them into practice.
- Provide agile coaching to impacted executive, business, and technology functions
- Establish and implement metrics to measure business agility in terms of flow, product quality, and customer value
- Assist in guiding enterprise-wide agile adoption progress against coaching, improvement, and change roadmaps
- Provide education, guidance, and recommendations to teams, product owners, scrum masters, architects, and management in the following areas
- Proactively manage issues and mitigate risks
- Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate and address concerns
- Mentor teams, work on projects independently, and participate as a team member
- Provide leadership through hands-on collaborative exercises/activities
- Build team knowledge and credibility quickly
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Agile Transformation (Hard Skills)
- Agile Training Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Executive and Cross-Functional Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Business Agility Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Enterprise Agile Adoption (Hard Skills)
- Risk Mitigation and Issue Management (Hard Skills)
- Mentorship and Team Building (Soft Skills)
10. Agile Coach, Agile Forward, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Address barriers to Iterative implementation with management and raise issues that need resolution.
- Provide heavy support in training leadership and launching new teams to operate in the Iterative model.
- Give leadership, management, and Product Owner training.
- Stand up to Iterative teams, drive them to perform well, and establish BU capability to move forward independently.
- Support team structure definition and define the operating model.
- Prepare and lead launch workshops.
- On-board team members and train them on new processes and behaviors.
- Executes continuous retrospective and evaluation processes to continuously improve team performance and health.
- Provide dedicated day-to-day assistance and coaching on Iterative framework, practices, and spring ceremonies to all team members.
- Deliver business value that visibly impacts BU goals.
- Partner with BU leadership to source and prioritize Iterative opportunities.
- Hold team members and managers accountable to operate in line with Iterative principles and focus on business value.
- Build relationships with team members and other relevant stakeholders to enable customized strategic coaching.
Skills on Resume:
- Barrier Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Leadership and Management Training (Hard Skills)
- Iterative Team Development (Soft Skills)
- Operating Model Definition (Hard Skills)
- Launch Workshop Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Onboarding and Process Training (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Coaching and Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
11. Agile Coach, CloudBridge Technologies, Seattle, WA
Job Summary:
- Comfortable coaching different constituencies and levels, including individuals, teams, programs, and Leadership when needed
- Develop and execute a coaching playbook
- Research, publish, and present Agile/Lean guidance and training to teams regularly
- Develop metrics that help evaluate the effectiveness of coaching engagements
- Help Leadership further establish a portfolio management process
- Serve as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) for one Agile Release Train by facilitating Program Increment (PI) Planning preparation, execution, and tracking activities, including Program Backlog grooming, PI Planning, and inspection and Adapt workshops, among others
- Help manage and administer Agile program management tools, including Jira and Jira Align
- Provide expert advice and guidance to the team and be responsible for the strategy and implementation of the engagement and collaboration approach.
- Guide when and how it is appropriate to transition from lightweight agile methods to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Use an appropriate agile approach to define, align, prioritize, and gain endorsement with senior executives to drive delivery of the workstream deliverables.
Skills on Resume:
- Coaching Across Levels (Soft Skills)
- Coaching Playbook Development (Hard Skills)
- Agile/Lean Training and Presentation (Hard Skills)
- Metrics Development (Hard Skills)
- Portfolio Management Process (Hard Skills)
- Release Train Engineer Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Agile Program Management Tools (Hard Skills)
- Scaled Agile Framework Guidance (Hard Skills)
12. Agile Coach, PathFinder Consulting, Atlanta, GA
Job Summary:
- Design and implement strategies for the adoption of Agile practices and their continuous improvement across the Canadian organization based on US head office and Global standards
- Help the organization to establish Agile practices for effective enterprise, portfolio management, and governance.
- Provide Agile coaching to technology teams and stakeholders
- Collaborate with the PMO and Change Management practice to facilitate sessions for envisioning the changes involving people from different levels of the organization
- Conduct assessments to identify what changes/improvements are necessary
- Coach teams on Agile methodologies by educating them on Agile ways of working and Agile tool usage, while building a continuous learning culture
- Define and coach teams on various metrics and measurements around Agile practices and business results to improve quality and productivity
- Coach stakeholders to embed practices of Agile management in their routines
- Help to identify the impediments impacting a team’s Agile journey and coach the team to resolve them, working with leaders when needed
- Mentor product owners and assist them in writing User Stories in line with Canadian and US Enterprise standards, keeping projects in motion, and empowering them to partner with business stakeholders for more strategic decision-making
- Promote continuing Lean, and Agile education and stay up to date on industry trends
- Support project planning, and team onboarding to JIRA instances, both in Canada and the US
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Adoption Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Enterprise and Portfolio Management (Hard Skills)
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Change Management Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Agile Assessment and Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Agile Metrics and Measurement (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Product Owner Mentorship (Soft Skills)
13. Agile Coach, Nova Consulting Group, Minneapolis, MN
Job Summary:
- Improve and develop Agile practices that promote innovation, rapid delivery, methodology sustainment, and pragmatism.
- Develop and deliver training curriculums focused on general Agile awareness, Agile roles and responsibilities, Agile ceremonies, Lean processes, and continuous improvement.
- Train and coach the government and contract support on Agile practices, and ceremonies, building upon current Agile successes
- Promoting continuous improvement in the ongoing adaption, and sustainment of those practices.
- Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to roles critical to the success of Agile adaption and sustainment.
- Develop and implement continuous improvement actions to increase organizational Agile maturity, as measured through an established and quantified Agile Maturity Model.
- Further develop, standardize, and publicize Agile metrics to optimize team performance and promote continuous improvement
- Be a trusted advisor on continued Agile deployment, organizational changes facilitating that deployment, and portfolio planning enabled by that deployment
- Understand the office’s technical, product, and overall business strategies to best align Agile deployment and practices to meet strategic objectives.
- Facilitate learning in teams and groups
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product managers to identify dependencies, risks, and impacts in a transparent way
- Contribute to building an environment where continuous improvement is in focus and where everyone’s common goal is to deliver outstanding software to customers
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Practices Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Training Curriculum Development (Hard Skills)
- Agile Coaching and Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement Promotion (Soft Skills)
- Agile Maturity Model Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Agile Metrics Standardization (Hard Skills)
- Trusted Advisor in Agile Deployment (Soft Skills)
- Risk and Dependency Management (Soft Skills)