Senior Agile Coach

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa IQbusiness South Africa Full time

**Location: Mauritius and JHB**
**Duration: 12 Month Engagement**
**Mainly JHB based and 90 days in Mauritius during the 12 month engagement**

Introduction

IQbusiness is the leading independent management consulting firm in South Africa.

At IQbusiness, we attract talented people from diverse backgrounds and commit ourselves to helping each person achieve his or her full potential. We are committed to growing each individual, and providing them with the challenges, feedback and support needed to achieve success.
**Minimum Requirements**

**Qualifications**:

- **
A relevant Scrum Master certification in at least one of the following**:
Certified Scrum Professional (ScrumAlliance) or
- Certified Scrum Master (ScrumAlliance) or;
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (ScrumAlliance) or;
- Agile Certified Practitioners (ACP) - PMI or;
- Professional Scrum Master Certification Level 1 / 2 - Scrum.org
- Relevant coaching certification or training advantageous including Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) or general coaching outside of Agile
- Advantageous, but not a prerequisite - Prince2 Certified (Foundation or Practitioner) or PMP certification
**Travel Requirements**
- **
Valid Passport / Work permit**
**Experience**:

Exposure to work within the governance structures of a large corporate will be an advantage
- Consulting experience in a variety of industry will be an advantage
- Experience with the implementation and adoption of Agile in an organisation
- Background in project management either through project experience or as a practicing project manager.

Job Specification
**Duties and Responsibilities**:
To play the role as an Agile Coach to assist our clients in adopting agile values, principles and practices. As most of our clients are new to Agile, the role will also require leading and assisting teams to deliver projects in an agile manor.
- The role of the Agile Coach within IQbusiness has the following job objectives:

- The overall objective or goal for the Agile coach the pursuit of creating sustainable, high-performance teams and organisations. This is enabled by creating motivated teams building the right product. This is achieved by creating autonomy, mastery and purpose at the individual level that translates to the team level
**This role will interact with the following parties**:

- Technology Enablement Management
- Clients and stakeholders at various levels
- IQbusiness practices
**Agile-Lean Practitioner**
- Ensuring that the agile manifesto - values and principles are understood and accepted by the team
- Deep knowledge with regards to the selected Agile framework or method (Scrum, Kanban etc.) - process focus
- Understanding of the practices, tools and techniques that are appropriate for the context
**Teaching**
- The ability to train people on Agile concepts, practices, tools and techniques
- Specific training for the roles that the individuals within the team will be playing as well as the necessary education to the wider organisation required to adopt Agile
- Provide a reference point to the correct body of knowledge
- Impart experience to the individuals and teams
**Mentoring**
- Providing a sound board to individuals and teams with regards to key concerns and issues
- One-on-one mentoring of the different roles within the Agile team
- Expert in conveying the required message
**Professional Coaching**
- Not about telling people on what to do, but to ask leading questions and allowing the teams to figure out solutions to specific impediments
- Coaching needs to address the different levels within the organisation
- Coaching upwards to middle management and senior management
- Coaching at the team level
- Coaching at the individual level
- Ensure sustainability of the team - engage initially over a period of time, and ensure that team is in a position to continually improve
- High levels of engagement up front with facilitation and involvement, moving to observation and guidance
- Helping the team being accountable for delivery
- Agile coach in not part of the team and typically is not accountable for delivery. This is for the ScrumMaster. Not getting involved in the content
**Facilitation**
- Facilitation of ceremonies in the beginning of the engagement with a transition to ownership of facilitation to ScrumMasters and Product Owners
- Impart professional facilitation skills to key to team members
- Facilitate difficult conversations to deal with team and organisational impediments
- Create a collaborative team environment - promote collaboration
**Mastery**
- Technical mastery - Embedding engineering principles and practices (e.g.) Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Test Driven Development and other XP practices
- Business mastery coach - understanding of the business domain and focusing the team and organisation in building valuable products
- Transformation mastery - Agile transformations may lead to resistance to change. It is important for the Agile coach to act facilitate the change in t

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