Agile Programme Lead

SUMMARY:
The Role:

Essential function:

• Optimise the flow of value through the ART by making work visible at a team and ART level
• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Program Increments (PIs)
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Conti...
  
  

  POSITION INFO:
  The Role:

  Essential function:

  • Optimise the flow of value through the ART by making work visible at a team and ART level
  • Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Program Increments (PIs)
  • Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings
  • Facilitate the PI planning event
  • Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (and publish them for visibility and transparency)
  • Assist tracking the delivery of features and capabilities against agreed MVP
  • Facilitate synchronization meetings, including the Scrum of Scrums and Program Sync
  • Run value stream mapping exercise at the beginning of each program to ensure correct team formation
  • · Where necessary coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Agile practices and mindsets
  • Help manage risks and dependencies
  • Escalate and track impediments
  • Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
  • Encourage collaboration between teams and Solution Architect (or IT lead)
  • ·Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
  • Improve and assess the DevOps and Release on Demand competency and ways of work
  • Facilitate System / PI Demos
  • Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops (retrospectives)
  • Assess the performance of the program overall and help the members of the program improve
  • Foster Communities of Practice / Chapters to ensure alignment on key areas of the program

  Depending on the person in the role, the shift in leadership approach could be highlighted by noting the shift in behaviours:

  • From coordinating team activities and contributions to coaching the teams to collaborate
  • From deadlines to objectives
  • From driving toward specific outcomes to being invested in the programâ??s overall performance
  • From knowing the answer to asking the teams for the answer
  • From directing to letting the teams self-organize and hit their stride
  • From fixing problems to helping others fix them
  Key Accountabilities:

  Technical Skills:

  • In depth knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), etc.
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile and SAFe theory, rules and practices and ceremonies. Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that they can explain other methodologies to motivate their team if needed.

  Understand the value of team and program metrics and keep track of them to measure performance. Metrics could include (but not be limited to):

  • Productivity. Measuring delivery against plan and against MVP.
  • Quality.
  • Time to market.
  • Team engagement.
  • Customer satisfaction.
  • Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Program Backlog Refinement, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, PI Retrospectives, and System Demos
  • Stakeholder Management, Negotiation Communication Skills
  • JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible through various means for teams and the program.

  Functional Skills:

  • Courageous. A great RTE has the courage to say what needs to be said in a respectful and tactful way. They respect the authority and direction of management, but have the courage to deliver the truth, even if itâ??s not what people want to hear.
  • Facilitator. Comfortable presenting in front of the team and management. They have an arsenal of tools and techniques to keep the participants interested and engaged.
  • Negotiator. Understands that most things are not black and white. There are many shades of grey, where matters must be negotiated to achieve an agreement that is palatable to all parties involved.
  • Communicator. Can deliver a message with tact, being sensitive to how the message is received by the team or by management
  Personality and Attributes:

  Soft Skills:

  • Listen and support teams in problem identification and decision-making
  • Create an environment of mutual influence
  • Understand and empathize with others
  • Encourage and support the personal development of each individual and the development of teams
  • Coach people with powerful questions rather than use authority
  • Think beyond day-to-day activities; apply systems thinking
  • Support the teamsâ?? commitments
  • Be open and appreciate openness in others
  
  
  

   

  NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.

  
  

  ---

   

  New users - Upload your CV

  Existing users - Login here