Agile Team Coach

7 days ago


Holborn, United Kingdom Reed Full time

Reed.co.uk are looking for an Agile Team Coach to join their mature agile delivery team based in Holborn, Central London.

Working with delivery teams in facilitating and being jointly accountable for the delivery of highly valuable and quality digital products with 4 key focuses:

- Team dynamics & environment - optimize multi-disciplinary teams & skilled individuals to deliver best quality software that furthers company goals
- Agile tools & techniques - making sure teams are getting the best out of being agile. Learning new tools, knowing when to use them and know about current trends
- Servant leadership - coaching, diplomacy, leadership, communication and facilitation
- Protection from external disruption - ensure teams are protected from internal encroachment on their time

Key responsibilities:

- Facilitating discussion, decision making, conflict resolution, team meetings and coordinating agile ways of working
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders), improving transparency and radiating information
- Supporting and coaching the Product Managers on backlog related topics
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams develop a continuous improvement mindset and effectively navigate change
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and optimise product development processes with a focus on delivering value consistently and frequently
- Continuously identifying areas of improvement using data-driven insights and developing tactics to effect change in said areas
- Assessing the maturity of the team’s agile practices and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams
- Building and mentoring leadership in the teams
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged
- Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
- Coaching the team on capacity planning, predictability, adaptability, accountability and quality standards
- Ensuring metrics are monitored, reported and acted upon for Team and Operational Health.
- Experience in multiple Agile frameworks including flow based and scrum based approaches.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Kanban, Lean, XP etc.)
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

**Benefits**:

- Flexible working as standard (including remote working options and flexible working hours)
- 10% weekly personal development time
- Regular hack days with rewards for prize winners
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible holiday scheme (buy, sell and carry over your holiday)

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