Agile Coach - Johannesburg at Praesignis

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing coaching that enables the teams to excel at agile development
• Facilitate discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution
• Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
• Coach the Product Owner and Scrum Masters to focus on delivering incremental business value while sustaining an engineering culture
• Facilitate cross-team meetings and help teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.
• Engage in problem solving sessions with team leads on how to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps which are congruent with the Agile approach and the company strategy
• Conducts training sessions on the fundamentals of Agile with new team members and training SAFe to all roles
• Focus on business units or departments outside of traditional software development that are interested in adopting Agile principles and methods.
• Facilitates organisation transformation relating to the new way of working across the organization

Qualifications: 

• Relevant Agile certification and training.
• Safe Program Consultants (SPC) certification is compulsory

Experience:

• At least 5 successfully delivered projects using Agile methodology.
• At least 2 – 3 projects that include an end to end Agile implementation playing the role of a Scrum Master or Tech Lead.
• Experience in coaching people on the Agile methodology.
• Experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Agile software development process (e.g. XP, Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with Agile techniques:
  • User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing and Agile Games.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.