Agile Coach

Responsibilities

•Ensure the right approach and outcomes for the respective initiatives under the assigned Strategic Programme Director (SPD)/Initiative Owner (IO)

•Design and develop Agile processes and practices for Agile adoption across the bank

•Work with Agile Leads and squad members to identify gaps in Agile delivery, and facilitate improvement

•Implement Agile metrics for driving data driven decision making and demonstrating impact of coaching and transformation efforts

•Develop hands-on workshops and brown-bags for Agile themes

•Facilitate M25+ transformation of organizational functions to enable the adoption of Agile processes and practices by the Strategic Programme squad

•Main contact point for M25+ Programme Management

•Plan resources

•Review progress, resolve issues, escalate as needed

•Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro’s, Daily Scrums.

•Helping the team progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team member’s progress, and protecting the team from distractions

•Mediate issues within the team. A Peace-Keeper function

Requirements

•Entrepreneurial

•Systems-thinker

•Digitally-savvy tech aficionado

•Adapts to new insights and shift comfortably from concept to detailed execution

•Affable with ability to communicate/work across teams/functions within tight timelines

•Managing mission-critical projects with multiple dependencies

•Able to engineer favourable outcomes with limited resources