Agile Coach

Job Title: Agile Coach

Contract length: 12 Months Initially (outside of IR35)

Location: Bristol

This is an exciting opportunity for a experienced Agile Coach to work alongside the Portfolio Team to lead an ambitious agile and digital transformation by providing coaching, mentoring, and training.

Specific skills and knowledge required:

*Facilitation and coaching of staff in a broad range of Agile workshops within teams and programmes of work
*Customised Agile training and workshops for staff sitting outside of Agile development teams
*Team level Scrum coaching to evolve team ways of working incorporating Scrum principles, values and practices
*Team level Kanban coaching to evolve team ways of working incorporating Lean and Kanban principles and philosophies
*Strategy for the implementation of metrics at organisational, programme and team levels, including baselining and measurement of transformation progress
*Evolved a streamlined process that supports and optimises the flow of work through the organisation from idea to delivery
*Assists in implementing Agile testing approaches and technology within team and programme settings, including the use of automation for regression testing
*Applied Agile engineering and DevOps techniques within project contexts including discovery of current practices and creating a staged plan to evolve towards better ways of working
*Incorporated Business Analysis into Agile ways of working
*Coached Product Owners/Managers and related stakeholders to successfully shape products/maximise value by application of Agile techniques for Product Strategy, Visioning,
*Story/User Journey Mapping, User and Customer feedback loops, Backlog Management
*Help build a Scrum Master community through community coaching sessions and interactive coaching support of individual Scrum Masters working with teams and workshop facilitation
*Evolves the contribution of the programme management function into the Agile delivery approach


Role Profile:

*Coach a team adopting agile working practices for pilot projects with a view to rolling out across the whole organisation to deliver digital services.
*To develop permanent members of staff to become competent Agile Coaches.
*Support agile delivery to increase efficiency of product portfolio outcomes and cross-programme consistency
*Improve quality and consistency in planning, reporting, forecasting and agile ways of working across multiple programmes and teams
*Advise improvements and support commercial and finance processes (programme side)
*Build internal capability and mentor teams to improve agile delivery and develop agile culture





LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.