Project/Program Manager IT 4

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

•             Lead the team ceremonies: Scrum sprint planning, refinement, sprint demos, and retrospective

•             Facilitate team conflict resolution by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect

•             Help a team/individual/product owners clarify goals and actions to achieve them

 •             Facilitate team to estimate and plan product/solution in a variety of tools with minor supervision

•             Ensure team is incorporating feedback from customers, end-users, and key stakeholders to increase value for our customers continually

•             Shield teams from outside distraction/interference

•             Track and remove impediments with little to no assistance

•             Collaborate with functional SMEs to better define product scope, goals, and deliverables

•             Work with the Product Owner to document and make visible the product/solution scope, goals, and deliverables

•             Develop estimates, schedules, effort, and cost based on best practices and experience

•             Identify capacity related risks, recommend potential mitigation, and escalate appropriately, and remediate

•             Create an environment of accountability within the delivery team

•             Work closely with functional team members to understand product/solution inter-dependencies.

•             Execute product delivery based on agile methodologies defined by the enterprise

•             Become proficient at using DevOps/Agile tooling and related tools

•             Identify, document, and escalate resource constraints, conflicts, and impediments

•             Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders to meet project deliverables and benefit case

•             Ensure product/solution alignment with enterprise standards and processes

•             Create an appropriate support model that addresses the support need of the product/solution

•             Update technical and job knowledge by learning from more senior-level scrum masters, self-education, and read professional publications

 Typical task breakdown:

•             Responsible for 6+ seven products or services

•             Oversee and participate in business analysis and organizational change management

•             Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog and prioritization.

•             Understand and adhere to Client Digital and corporate governance processes.

•             provides agile leadership and oversight for low to moderate-complexity

•             Activities will be managed in Azure DevOps or another agile tooling

•             Provides reports to the Manager, Stakeholders oversight for low to moderate-complexity

Education & Experience Required:

  Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in this role.

Technical Skills

(Required)

  8+ year of IT experience or equivalent or 5+ year product/project management experience

7+ years of agile/scrum experience

 4+ years of experience working in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master with knowledge and demonstrated expertise in applying Agile best practices, Scrum ceremonies, and scaled Agile practices.

4+ years of experience in the software development life cycle

3+ years of experience in sprint and program increment planning

 Experience running the multiple Scrum ceremonies.

Experience implementing Agile estimation techniques