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NextGen Information Services, Inc.

33861693_Agile Coach

NextGen Information Services, Inc., Des Peres, Missouri, United States,


Job Title: Sr. Agile CoachAgile Coach helps a teams or individual adopt and improve agile methods and practice. A coach helps people rethink and change the way they go about development. The coach can help teams apply agile and lean thinking to the specific environments and impediments they face. Working as an advisor, the coach can help the team adapt the methodology to their situation, and help them challenge the existing environment.

Responsibilities:• Partner with Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, and other Agilists to develop

comprehensive coaching plans designed to improve agile ways of working at the

portfolio, product, and team levels.• Act as a key change agent and lead others through transformation at the executive level

as well as coach and mentor key roles in the portfolio.• Be pragmatic in coaching and adapt the frameworks and tools in agile toolkit to

impact streamlined delivery, improve quality, and ensure teams are achieving

business outcomes and value delivery.• Thoughtfully develop and advance transformation roadmap at the portfolio level that is

customer-centric, and business outcome focused• Partner with portfolio leadership for strategic business agility planning• Advise leaders on team topologies structured to streamline value delivery• Facilitate agile maturity assessments and guide leaders & teams in continual

improvement activities• Teach, mentor, and coach individuals, teams and team of teams on agile

practices• Contribute to the development and evolution of Agile Standards across the

organization• Leverage experimentation and rapid learning to improve agile practices and

delivery outcomes• Utilize information radiators, agile artifacts, metrics and reporting to guide

direction and measure impacts• Encourage and coach business leaders to focus on outcomes over outputs and establish

clear key results• Model agile behaviors and servant leadership with a drive for relentless improvement• Develop self-organized/managed teams and team of teams

Qualifications specific to this role:

o Bachelor's Degree in IT related fields

o 5+ years of experience coaching at the portfolio level or higher

o Expert skills and knowledge in Agile frameworks (Agile, Lean, Scrum, XP, etc)

o Embodied servant leadership

o Excellent skills in facilitation, conflict resolution, and empowerment

o Experience using ALM tools (AHA, JIRA, Confluence)

o Experience using agile assessment platforms (AgilityHealth) to guide

performance driven coaching outcomes• Preferred qualifications specific to this role:

o Master's Degree in IT related fieldso Certifications such as ICAgile Certifications in Coaching, Facilitation, and/or Business

Agility Foundations (ICP-ACC, ICP-ACF, ICP-BAF), CSM Certifications (CSM, CSP-SM),

AgilityHealth (AHF - Facilitator, CIC (Continuous Improvement Champion)

Required Skills:APPLICATION LIFE CYCLEAGILE PDM