Agile Delivery Lead

Essential Functions:  

 Delivery 

• Facilitates team events for assigned team(s), including daily stand-up, planning, retrospective, review, backlog refinement, etc. Facilitates collaboration sessions such as dependency management, story mapping, cross-team coordination, and conflict resolution 

• Proficient in JIRA and its road mapping capabilities.

• Experience with Power BI for building metrics dashboards is an added advantage.

• Builds and analyzes metrics and information radiators; provides insights into delivery, forecasting, and historical data 

• Supports the Product Owner by providing techniques for effective backlog management and product roadmap maintenance and utilization

• Acts as a close delivery partner with the Product Owner and team to manage dependencies and ensure successful feature delivery

• Guides the team to successfully build and deliver high value products incrementally and at a sustainable pace 

• Proactively identifies and resolves impediments, risks, and dependencies that interrupt the flow of value 

• Demonstrates knowledge of the team’s product and/or service offerings to provide more effective facilitation, backlog management, and dependency management

Thought Leadership

• Acts as servant leader to enable team(s) to be self-organized, cross-functional, and effective in Product driven organization

• Serves the team(s) by increasing the awareness and maturity of Agile and Lean principles, values and practices. Provides education to multiple teams via training and workshops; provides small group and individual mentoring opportunities as assigned

• Works with other Agile Delivery team members to increase the effectiveness of Agile and Lean practices across the organization

Continuous Improvement

• Leads the team(s) to identify and minimize waste, while maximizing value; recommends optimalutilization of team

• Analyzes team performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and implement strategies to enhance productivity

• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation and learning from failure

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

• Four years of experience in IT product or project delivery, including three years as a Scrum Master. 

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of Agile principles and values

• Strong knowledge of Scrum framework and practices

• Excellent facilitation and organizational skills

• Good knowledge of multiple Agile frameworks

• Ability to blend practices based on each team’s unique need

• Working knowledge of technology practices related to software development lifecycle (SDLC), IT shared services, QA, and/or? DevOps

• Strong interpersonal and servant leadership qualities and skills

• Ability to remove impediments, resolve conflict, and motivate team members

• Strong knowledge of collaboration tools, such as Jira and Confluence

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills