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Agile Coach
NR Consulting - India
🇮🇳 India
On-site
1 week ago
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean
- Jira
1 week ago
Location: Mumbai/Pune
Exp: 15+ Yrs
Job Description:
15 + years of experience,9 years as an Agile coach alone
· Coaches leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and teams to build Agile mindset, practices, and self-organization.
· Drives enterprise-wide Agile adoption, aligning frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with business strategy and outcomes
· Improves flow, predictability, and quality using metrics (velocity, cycle time, OKRs) and continuous improvement practices.
· Influences senior stakeholders, manages resistance, and ensures alignment across business and technology teams.
· Establishes Agile governance, best practices, and scaling models across multiple teams/programs for consistent execution
· Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives.
· Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities.
· Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies
· Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, as well as provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations.
· Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance to refine their processes.
· Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams.
· Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting. Assist organizations to define, prioritize, and decompose requirements in Product and Program Backlogs
· Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, Assess team performance and Agile maturity, and report findings.
· Provide feedback on processes, policies, procedures, training, and tooling changes to better support the enterprise's Agile transformation.
· Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate cross-team planning workshops.
· Facilitate and coordinate cross-team grooming sessions. Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices. Prepare and/or update organization-wide Agile artifacts and methodology documentation.
· Help iterate on and provide recommendations to advance the Agile Transformation Roadmap.
· Embed an agile culture using techniques from a wide range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks.
· Ensure Agile project metrics are being tracked and monitored for indications of potential problem areas and assist teams in identifying and implementing solutions to address the problems.
· Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise.
Qualifications:
• Familiar with tools like JIRA
• Ability to demonstrate superior organizational skills with an acute attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in time-sensitive situations and prioritize multiple projects with similar deadlines.
• Agile coaching experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile concepts with an emphasis on SAFe including Scrum, Kanban, Product Ownership, and Agile Scaling.
• Experience as a hands-on organizational change agent working across multiple teams
• Experience with assisting leadership and team members with removing barriers and embracing transformation by assisting each organization to customize its own path, approach, and solutions to becoming Agile.
Agile Coach · NR Consulting - India