Agile Coach

BlueWave is hiring an Agile Coach for a leading hospitality enterprise with headquarters in Central Florida. As an Agile Coach, you will assist multiple teams to adapt and implement Agile principles and practices effectively. You will empower the company’s delivery teams to collaborate & make effective decisions, driving adaptive planning practices, innovative development, early delivery, & continuous improvement. 

Responsibilities: 

• Educate teams, leaders, and business partners about Agile values, principles, processes, and tools

• Create and maintain training content

• Schedule & facilitate workshops including delivery team onboarding & re-set sessions etc.

• Conduct a post-training evaluation to drive continuous improvement

• Track and report on all knowledge and capability development activities

• Actively support ongoing knowledge capability efforts such as online forums, content management activities, and communities of practice      

• Support the professional development of team members and other expert roles such as scrum master, product owner, and leaders by walking them through how to put agile principles and practices into place based on your prior experience and extensive knowledge of effective approaches

• Empower teams to discover issues and opportunities to deliver  improved customer value

• Guide individuals and teams to discover answers and alternative solutions/approaches to continuously deliver software solutions

• Coach teams and other roles to create and prioritize their product backlog, user stories, size stories, and duration of releases

• Champion the voice of the customer and the feedback loop, continuously provide an organizational voice urging and driving continuous improvement and cultural change

• Customer relationships: Advise and collaborate with business and IT leadership

• Thought leadership: collect and disseminate organizational and industry good practices and lessons learned. Advocate for Agile approaches to getting work done and delivering business results. 

• Closely follows the strategic direction set by Agile Coaching Office when establishing near-term goals.

• Interacts with the coaching office on matters where they may need to gain acceptance on an alternate approach.

• Has some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to help the team determine methods and procedures to realize delivery team goals  

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience

• Agile Certifications (CSM, CSC, etc.)

• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Hospitability experience

• Participation in industry Agile communities

• Agile Lean Practitioner Acumen

• Communication and Influence

• Using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, or a related agile discipline/practice

• Focus on working with end users to deliver business value early

• Iterative and incremental delivery

• Emergent design and architecture

• Automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing

• Continuous integration, continuous build, and automated deployment

• Coach and facilitate others to adopt agile practices

• Facilitation and training design experience

• Experience with processes and tools that support Agile practices

• Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives

• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills

• 2 years of Scrum Master experience or equivalent

• 2+ years of relevant Agile leadership experience or at least 1 year of experience as an Agile Coach with group training experience preferred

BlueWave specializes in recruiting high-performing team members for technology, marketing, federal services, and leadership roles. We’re aggressive hunters – but only of talented people – and provide comprehensive staffing support for recruiting, hiring, and onboarding permanent and contract employees.

BlueWave is headquartered in Downtown Orlando, Florida with the flexibility to build teams nationally. With our boutique and personal approach, we get the right people in your company quickly without sacrificing quality.

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