Job ID: MP-Agile (911091108)
Agile Coach with training, strategy and PM experience
Client: JPMC
Location: Chicago, IL
Education: Master’s degree, with Agile Certifications
Skills: Agile Coach, minimum 15+ Years of Experience, Financial Industry Experience
Job Description:
Agile is a project management method that serves as an alternative to traditional methodologies, specifically within the field of software development.
As such, Agile Coaches lead teams of developers, often implementing this new methodology for the first time, meaning that in additional to coaching they are driving organizational change.
The goal of an Agile Coach is to improve teams of developers and overall project management by increasing collaboration, innovation, and introducing techniques that promote adaptability and flexibility in the face of unpredictable circumstances.
Agile Coach Duties and Responsibilities:
In order to lead teams of developers in Agile methodology, an Agile Coach performs many different tasks.
We analyzed job listings for Agile Coaches in order to identify these core duties and responsibilities.
Educate Colleagues:
The Agile Coach must educate employees at all levels, including senior, and at times clients on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work.
They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
Mentor Team:
As a mentor, the Agile Coach is responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions.
They provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.
Develop Agile Adoption Strategy:
The Agile Coach is responsible for designing a strategy for the organizational adoption of Agile.
This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
Implement Agile Methodology:
This task entails implementing Agile process, principles and practices across all levels and departments in an organization.
The Agile Coach must use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
In order to do this, the Agile Coach must also embody the Agile principles and lead by example.