Agile coach
Eviture is a professional services firm that specialise in leading enterprise agile delivery for complex business and IT challenges, with on-shore, near-shore and offshore team members working in collaboration. We work across all levels within organisations to enable business agility for our clients. We are a team of passionate, hard-working agile enthusiasts. We just love what we do.The opportunityWe are looking for those who share our passion. We are looking for exceptional agile professionals with excellent interpersonal, communication and technical skills with the ability to effectively engage with a global stakeholder community. You need to have good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, mentoring, situational awareness and conflict resolution. You will need to understand and appreciate the adaptation of the agile manifesto, the Scrum framework, Extreme Programming practices, the software craftsmanship manifesto, a DevOps mind set, and lean and Kanban.You will need to be a business focused people person doing whatever is required to make things happen as opposed to wanting to hide behind process.We are looking for applicants who have a passion for working side-by-side with customers and experience in coaching agile and lean concepts within scaled and near-shore and offshore environments, creating cross-functional, high-performance teams working to a strong agile ethos. We also encourage our coaches to pursue specialised areas of interest in their training, curriculum development, writing, public speaking, and thought leadership work. Our customer base is rapidly expanding, and we are now looking for both permanent staff and for contract associates. Due to current engagements, we especially value applicants based in London, Stockholm, Berlin and Amsterdam.What we expect from youA cultural change agent that champion and embody the agile mindset across both business and development teams, leading by example with the right behaviours.Be utterly pragmatic and resisting all urges to rely on dogmatic principles that you read or heard somewhere.Proactively collaborate, anticipate and manage impediments and risks, enabling the teams to deliver on the promises they make. You’ll be expected to model the facilitation skills that make agile collaboration work.Ability to be instrumental in defining and shaping how agile can be adopted within an organisation and manage the associated risks.Promote, motivate and create an environment of team spirit, enthusiasm, communication, collaboration, trust, transparency and confidence in the teams’ abilities to achieve success.Help the teams establish and abide by a set of 'norms' that help them govern their behaviours and interactions.Promote learning, experimentation and knowledge sharing and encourage creativity and help the teams to continuously challenge the ways of working to ensure continuous improvement of process and behaviour through regular reflection and adaptation.Own and facilitate agility, responsible for enacting agile values and practices while advocating and influencing the adoption of agile methodologies to achieve time-to-value objectives.Work with other agile professionals to examine organisational impediments, to achieve a consistent framework across various delivery teams and to recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.Facilitate and encourage discussions to create consensus agreement and binding decisions and actively work on discouraging a blame culture, resolve conflict between people and promoting cohesiveness in the team to achieve common goals.Collaborate with the Product Owner to maintain a strategic product roadmap, facilitate the creation of Release Plans, coach the Product Owner with prioritisation, ordering and planning so that regular releases achieve strategic goals that fulfil parts of the product vision, feed back to the Product Owner on the readiness of the backlog items and assist the Product Owner and the team to identify and articulate acceptance criteria that capture the details of user stories.Develop a relationship with the business such that the team and the business act as one unit and communicate effectively with all levels of staff throughout the end-to-end delivery chain, building and maintaining effective relationships.Note to Applicants – we have has a 4-12 week interview cycle. This is due to our collaborative hiring model and coordinating interviews with the coaching staff’s travel schedules. If you have a specific hiring timeframe, please highlight this in your cover letter.
Title: Agile coach
Salary: None
Description: Eviture is a professional services firm that specialise in leading enterprise agile delivery for complex business and IT challenges, with on-shore, near-shore and offshore team members working in collaboration. We work across all levels within organisations to enable business agility for our clients. We are a team of passionate, hard-working agile enthusiasts. We just love what we do.The opportunityWe are looking for those who share our passion. We are looking for exceptional agile professionals with excellent interpersonal, communication and technical skills with the ability to effectively engage with a global stakeholder community. You need to have good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, mentoring, situational awareness and conflict resolution. You will need to understand and appreciate the adaptation of the agile manifesto, the Scrum framework, Extreme Programming practices, the software craftsmanship manifesto, a DevOps mind set, and lean and Kanban.You will need to be a business focused people person doing whatever is required to make things happen as opposed to wanting to hide behind process.We are looking for applicants who have a passion for working side-by-side with customers and experience in coaching agile and lean concepts within scaled and near-shore and offshore environments, creating cross-functional, high-performance teams working to a strong agile ethos. We also encourage our coaches to pursue specialised areas of interest in their training, curriculum development, writing, public speaking, and thought leadership work. Our customer base is rapidly expanding, and we are now looking for both permanent staff and for contract associates. Due to current engagements, we especially value applicants based in London, Stockholm, Berlin and Amsterdam.What we expect from youA cultural change agent that champion and embody the agile mindset across both business and development teams, leading by example with the right behaviours.Be utterly pragmatic and resisting all urges to rely on dogmatic principles that you read or heard somewhere.Proactively collaborate, anticipate and manage impediments and risks, enabling the teams to deliver on the promises they make. You’ll be expected to model the facilitation skills that make agile collaboration work.Ability to be instrumental in defining and shaping how agile can be adopted within an organisation and manage the associated risks.Promote, motivate and create an environment of team spirit, enthusiasm, communication, collaboration, trust, transparency and confidence in the teams’ abilities to achieve success.Help the teams establish and abide by a set of 'norms' that help them govern their behaviours and interactions.Promote learning, experimentation and knowledge sharing and encourage creativity and help the teams to continuously challenge the ways of working to ensure continuous improvement of process and behaviour through regular reflection and adaptation.Own and facilitate agility, responsible for enacting agile values and practices while advocating and influencing the adoption of agile methodologies to achieve time-to-value objectives.Work with other agile professionals to examine organisational impediments, to achieve a consistent framework across various delivery teams and to recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.Facilitate and encourage discussions to create consensus agreement and binding decisions and actively work on discouraging a blame culture, resolve conflict between people and promoting cohesiveness in the team to achieve common goals.Collaborate with the Product Owner to maintain a strategic product roadmap, facilitate the creation of Release Plans, coach the Product Owner with prioritisation, ordering and planning so that regular releases achieve strategic goals that fulfil parts of the product vision, feed back to the Product Owner on the readiness of the backlog items and assist the Product Owner and the team to identify and articulate acceptance criteria that capture the details of user stories.Develop a relationship with the business such that the team and the business act as one unit and communicate effectively with all levels of staff throughout the end-to-end delivery chain, building and maintaining effective relationships.Note to Applicants – we have has a 4-12 week interview cycle. This is due to our collaborative hiring model and coordinating interviews with the coaching staff’s travel schedules. If you have a specific hiring timeframe, please highlight this in your cover letter.
Requirements: Mid-Senior level experience, Bachelor's Degree education
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