Agile Coach Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the agile coach opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for coaching directly to the federal government on the institutionalization of Agile practices focusing on Scrum, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), DevOps, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) across the enterprise and to specific organizations, programs, and projects.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Facilitate group sessions such as retrospectives, conflict resolution, decision making, team and special project kick-offs
• Prepare and conduct formal training within teams and across groups within the organization
• Build and evolve communities of practice across the organization
• Guide teams in creation of attainable, measurable, and appropriate Goals & KPIs, ensuring that the team collaboratively creates them and collectively “owns” them
• Serve as first point of escalation for impediments which the team has not been able to resolve
• Raise issues early and often to model the value of early problem detection
• Ensure in JIRA that the "assigned resources" field is being filled in with appropriate team member names
• Strong organizational change management experience including excellent problem solving and influencing skills, stakeholder engagement, conflict management

I would like to submit my application for the agile coach opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for strategic thought leadership during engagements on approaches to overcome impediments to accelerated delivery; skillfully facilitates conflict resolution with and between teams.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Be a creative thinker, confident and able to express complex ideas in an articulate, concise manner
• Hands on expertise with Rally and Jira
• Fostering and motivating a culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Is certified or an expert with SAFe
• Experience with independently transitioning software teams to a variation of Agile processes, prior experience coaching and mentoring software teams on Agile transitions
• Coach and facilitate others to adapt agile practices
• Facilitation and training design experience
• Experience with processes and tools that support Agile practices

Please consider me for the agile coach opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for coaching for leadership, teams, Scrum Masters or others based on assigned engagements and in alignment with our clients best practices.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Coach and mentor other scrum masters within the organization
• Provide insights into areas for improvements with a focus on outcomes
• Build a good rapport with sponsor and senior management within the client organization highlighting periodically the risks/issues/concerns in Agile adoption with solutions to overcome bottle-necks and ways to institutionalize practices
• Build QAI brand in Agile space – Should work with Agile Practice team in QAI and develop next level of Practice roadmap and become QAI ambassador in facilitating Agile conferences, clinics, and colloquiums
• Work closely with QAI agile practices and Business development teams
• Minimum Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) and preferably additional certifications like PMI ACP
• CSPO (Certified SCRUM Product owner), CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) and CSC (Certified SCRUM Coach) and Safe Agilist (SA)
• Strong subject matter expertise and experience in using AGILE principles and techniques – Kanban, Kaizen, SCRUM, XP, Iterative Development, LEAN, Safe and similar other core principles and techniques

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the agile coach position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for coaching directly to the federal government on the institutionalization of Agile Practices focusing on Scrum, but also including LeSS, DevOps, SAFe, and Lean, to organization, programs, and projects.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Mentor, teacher, facilitator and eager to share
• Experience with distributed development teams that span multiple geographies, time zones, and cultures
• Skills and experience in leading and managing process assessment (documenting as-is) and process analysis (identifying improvement opportunities and defining future state)
• At least 1-2 Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified or Professional Scrum Trainer (CST, PST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Associate or Professional Certified Coach (ACC, PCC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or SAFE Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT)
• Solid background utilizing an agile framework
• Coaches will be dedicated to specific agile teams over the course of the transformation (18 months)
• Coaches will need to dedicate 40+ hours a week to this role
• Coaches will launch more than one agile team and could play a role in monitoring past teams that have been launched

Please consider me for the agile coach opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for coaching and support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Exceptional knowledge of Agile Scrum principles and practices
• Great working attitude
• Participation and engagement in the Agile community including speaking engagements, publications, etc
• Experience in a scaled Agile environment
• Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum Coach, or Project Management Consulting experience
• Deep understanding of technology service business models
• SAFE SPC Certification or equivilent scaled agile experience
• Recognized as a High Value Specialist and Agile expert within and outside the company and requires broad and comprehensive expertise in leading-edge theories or techniques in their own field