Must be able to obtain Baseline
Location – ACT or QLD
Agile Coaches to deliver the following services:
- Mentor, coach, and support various roles and teams to enhance planning processes, agile ceremonies and continuous integration delivery practices within the branch.
- Lead planning processes where required to successfully guide the agile journey.
- Lead training, communications, and technical activities to successfully implement agile practices into the culture of the department.
- Communicate and collaborate across teams and the wider cohort in successfully adopting and maturing agile practices, including working on communications plans.
- Support the development of portfolio and program management and governance.
Responsibilities of role will include:
- Work with executives to promote Agile mindset and best practices towards delivery success.
- Provide of program and team level coaching, and creation of artefacts as needed on Agile practices, principles, roles, artifacts, and mechanics.
- Assess scrum maturity of the branch and identify how individual scrum teams can increase their agile maturity level.
- Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the scrum teams, and mentoring for the Product Owners and Scum Masters.
Essential criteria
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in software development (leading, managing and working with teams), with at least 3 years of experience in Agile development methodologies (Ideally SAFe and Scrum).
Strong leadership skills, including excellent problem-solving abilities and proven ability to build teams and create a positive team culture.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including demonstrated ability to understand and influence individuals through guidance and coaching.
Proven experience applying lean/Agile methodologies within a medium to large size enterprise/experience working in government.
Desirable criteria
Certified qualifications (eg.Scrum Master (CSM/PSM), SAFe certifications) are beneficial
Hands on experience with Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps, and implementing them successfully.
2 years of experience in assessing team performance.
