Agile Practices Lead

You'll have the best time working here, and this is why:

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#Learning

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With dedicated 10% Learning and Development time they help to ensure you are growing with us from Day 1.

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#Flexible

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Flexibility means different things to different people and they support you to find what works, including a home office setup and utilities allowance.

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#Wellness

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Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, they offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

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#Social

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Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate success. Join this company in the office on payday for company-paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual company awards, celebrations and more.

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Here's a bit about what you can expect from this role:

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* Champion agile ways of working and lead practice improvement and alignment using system thinking, agile and lean values, principles and practices holistically across their squads.

* Develop, deliver and measure the success of key agile initiatives to identify and remove constraints, bottlenecks and inefficiencies and build and strengthen agile capability

* Coach Product Owners, rostered Squad Masters and teams to understand the value of agile rituals and practices and boost the vitality of their product engineering teams

* Coach strong role accountability and ability for teams to resolve role clarity amongst themselves

* Coach teams and leaders to adopt a continuous improvement mindset,  championing the use of appropriate metrics to base continuous improvement activities  e.g. flow time, work in progress, work distribution, throughput and flow efficiency

* Help teams understand the value of whole team ownership of product delivery, coordination and metrics to build team self-reliance and autonomy

* Help provide transparency of progress, risks and impediments to stakeholders including supporting and evolving their Visibility of Work playbook

* Support teams with optimising their use of Jira, helping with customisation, workflows, templates, automation, setup and dashboards to support their ways of working

* As required, facilitate workshops, training, strategy meetings and conversations

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What you will bring to the team:

* 5+ years experience in Agile roles in increasing seniority and at least 2+ years Agile coaching experience across multiple teams in various Agile practices (eg. Scrum, Kanban)

* Experience working with the tools and practices that support great product ownership

* Advanced knowledge of Jira and reporting plug-ins (e.g. Easy BI) to visualise and manage the flow of work and associated key metrics

* Proficiency in using collaboration tools to communicate and facilitate effective discussions (eg. Miro, LucidChart)

* Excellent facilitation skills

* A strong leader who can influence people across multiple leadership levels to get buy-in, form strong relationships and get the best outcome

* An outstanding communicator - able to explain ideas simply and clearly, listen carefully to others, and proactively improve team communication

* Proven track record of successfully leading complex organisational and cultural change

* Experience working with software product engineering teams

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They know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity and are hungry to learn and grow, make sure you contact your job search specialist!

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They are an INZ-accredited employer. They truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

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