Agile Team Coach

Job description summary As an Agile Team Coach you support one or more Scrum
Masters (SM), Product Owners (PO) and their Agile Teams in
their Agile development in order to create highly effective
and innovative teams.
Responsibilities Responsibilities and tasks

• Coach PO’s and SM’s and their teams to become

autonomous, customer focused and continuously learning

• Prepare and guide SM’s, PO’s and their teams in the agile

transformation

• Evaluate and act on progress of team improvement

• Determine approach to develop individuals & teams

• Provide SM’s, PO’s and their teams with feedback and

means of improvement

• Coach SM’s, PO’s and their teams to work with Scrum or

Kanban

• Coach SM’s, PO’s and their teams to apply SAFe framework

(structure & rituals) where required

• Coach SM’s, PO’s and their team members to become

mature enough in their tasks to move ahead autonomously

• Guide SM’s & PO’s to get rid of roadblocks themselves

rather than to let it block the team.

• Help SM’s, PO’s and their teams to improve on the real

delivery (speed, quality)

• Support SM’s, PO’s and their teams to analyze and identify

impediments and solve them where possible

• Provide hands-on support to team members to grow in their

role specifically the SM’s and PO’s

• Stimulate the use of internal tooling to

support Agile development

• Participate in coach community

• Ensure that you are informed on the change process and

framework of the company and act and communicate
accordingly
IT-Skills Must have skills, competences, education

• Agile/Lean mindset

• Impact, motivation

• Interpersonal sensitivity

• At least Bachelor level thinking/acting (NL: HBO)

• Experience in workshop facilitation

• Experienced in using tools (like Confluence, Jira, etc) and

applying rituals

• Basic knowledge of Lean

• Knowledge of team dynamics

• Sufficient business English speaking, reading/writing

• Knowledge of/experience with Scrum and Kanban for

software development

• Certified Scrum Master and/or Product Owner (scrum.org or

scrumalliance.org; Certification <3 years and/or proof of
recent work experience)

• Certified SAFe Agilist (or take course+ certification within 2

months, paid by provider, hours not charged to client; certification < 3 years and/or proof of recent
work experience)

• At least 1 year experience as Scrum Master and/or Product

Owner

For external coaches

• At least 1 year experience as agile coach

Additional/recommended skills, competences, education

• Relevant experience within Information Management/IT

Development (e.g. Developer, Project Manager, etc)

• Experience as Trainer

• Experience as SAFe RTE

• Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4)

• Lean Six Sigma Certification (Yellow Belt, or Green Belt, or

Black Belt)

• Specific coach training

• Coach experience in large international organizations

• Coach experience with offshore and/or distributed teamsKnowledge of/experience with various facilitation

techniques

• Knowledge of Lean Startup, Innovation techniques, MVP

experimenting, Story Mapping, Design Thinking, etc.

Contactpersoon voor deze aanvraag is Kees van Leeuwen.