Agile Coach - 6 Months Central London

Certes have been instructed to recruit an Agile Coach to join our public sector client based in Central London on an initial 6 month contract. The role will be paying the market rate.

The Agile Coach is required to join a multi-disciplinary team of Developers, Designers and Analysts with the responsibility of coaching those development teams.

The Agile Coach will come to the role with:
* Several years' experience implementing Agile practices in the context of software engineering.
* Experience working with Agile project teams through the entire project life cycle (build, test, release).
* Be able to identify common ways in which Agile principles and practices may be misinterpreted, misunderstood or misapplied.
* Have experience of pairing, test driven design, re factoring, continuous integration, continuous delivery and test automation.. Understand the different between Agile methods and how they can be applied together for success.
* Have used one or more programming languages (eg Java, C#, Ruby) in project team.
* Ability to explain the costs and benefits of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATTD) approaches.
* Hands-on experience with automated functional testing.
* Experience in testing tools and frameworks, including Cucumber among others.
* Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
* Strong knowledge and passion for Agile principles and practices.
* Comfortable acting more as a coach than a trainer, and can understand the difference.

The Agile Coach will be required to:
. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, helping to guide them and conveying the subtleties of Agile principles and methodologies.
* Apply Agile principles and methodologies in a way which aligns with the values and goals of the project and wider organisation.
* Working with product owners and business analysts to identify and define user stories and acceptance criteria, product management, sprint backlogs.
* Facilitate the sprint planning and prioritisation process.
* Remove blockers.
* Create an environment conducive to self-organising people and teams, and ready to step in with advice where needed.. Getting the best out of non-Agile team members with guidance and support in understanding requirements.
* Discipline in an environment with conflicting priorities and demands.
* Help to bridge the different disciplines in the team in order to enable creativity from everyone.

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