Responsibilities

Foster transparency and visibility, and radiate information—ensuring a team’s progress, obstacles, and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself Helping the organization reap the benefits of Agile at scale Be self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, lessons learned, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings Track and communicate team velocity and sprint-release progress Ensuring the development teams practice the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition Assist as needed with backlog maintenance Communicate project status to stakeholders Gain and maintain a detailed understanding of business goals and platform capabilities Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices Create and maintain process documentation Remove blockers to team progress and proactively help the team make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future Perform additional tasks as necessary

Agile transformation

Support transformation initiatives during the planning and implementation phases Use subject matter expertise of large-scale Agile transformations and frameworks to support the development of the overall transformation plan Lead working groups to meet transformation deliverables such as identifying a standard set of project metrics, revising project templates, setting up communities of practice, and updating processes; work with the team to create a plan to meet deliverables, facilitate meetings, track progress and action items, take minutes, and update wikis Track adoption of practices and processes Support the development of a leadership engagement strategy as the roles of managers and executives change in the organization Make recommendations regarding processes to adapt, change, or discard relating to project and portfolio management Assist with the development of custom Agile training for Scrum teams, product owners, and Scrum masters Aid in creating an internal coaching program that will identify and develop good potential Agile coaches for certification

Release management

Develops standards, processes, and controls for configuration and release activities Establishes and facilitates release team meetings, coordinates issues, and facilitates solutions pertaining to the release process, and maintains release documentation Log, track, and escalate high-priority project issues affecting the ability to deliver quality products according to plan

Desired skills and experience

An undergraduate degree in areas related to management information systems or business administration CSM or CSP desired At least five years of previous Agile or Scrum project management experience within a software development environment Solid understanding of software development life cycle, configuration, and change control management Strong organizational and cross-team communication skills Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment