Agile Coach, Contract, Government

Agile Coach, London, Contract

Required Skills for the Agile Coach
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, refactoring, 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.

Main duties and responsibilities.
Delivery/Scrum Mastering, Agile Team Roles, behaviours, structure and culture - one team approach. Agile Ceremonies (stand ups, demos, retrospectives, planning meeting etc). Agile Practices (planning, estimating, building quality in, development, testing (with SW Engineering Coach), release management, metrics and reporting, use of Kanban etc. Service Delivery and Operations, Involvement and engagement (transition). Continuous Improvement (Product Teams)