
Enterprise Agile Coach
- Wellington Auckland
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Embed a culture of continuous learning, empowerment, rapid experimentation, adaptability, and collaboration
- Guide and coach teams to follow the agility principles and practices that work best for the team, helping everyone understand the theory, practices, principles, and values of agility through servant leadership. This is achieved through;
- Coaching team members on the facilitation of key ceremonies and role modelling best practice where helpful
- Improving the flow of work
- Enabling delivery and helping foster a strong team culture
- Support and coach the teams on agility, practices, frameworks, tools
- Support the creation and delivery of agility training and workshop material for use across ANZ
- Guide and coach teams to become self-organised
- Support teams to inspect, adapt, and self-assess to continuously improve delivery
- Improve transparency of work, processes, and impediments within teams and across CoEs
- Facilitate the removal of impediments and coaching others to do the same
- Foster a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be navigated in a healthy way without fear of blame
- Strong understanding of Agile values and principles and how they can be applied to technical and business teams
- Knowledge of underlying concepts such as transparency, inspection, adaptation, and theory of constraints etc
- Previous experience with scaling frameworks
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills to help guide teams and individuals to reflect and problem solve
- Ability to facilitate agile training workshops, ceremonies and any other meetings as requested
- Clear and empathetic communication skills that encourages trust and openness within teams
- Skilled in dealing with resistance in individuals and teams to understand the 'why' of agility
- Ability to create and utilise metrics and data to help guide conversations, decisions, and improvements
- Experience in engaging and working with stakeholders at all levels
- Adaptable approach when applying practices to suit different team dynamics, projects, CoE and organisational needs
- Previous experience of programmes or projects and how agile principles might apply to these
- Practical experience with key tools such as Jira, Confluence