Job Description

Delivery:

• Facilitate planning, daily stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews including demos and prototyping, sprint planning, grooming and retrospectives for the Epics, features and benefits that need to be groomed, run and delivered as part of the product/platform owners backlog
• Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups and meetings to monitor project/feature progress and resolve issues the team may be experiencing.
• Removing impediments/blockers or guiding the team to remove impediments/blockers by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Manage dependencies between project teams, squads within the Digital Studio, third parties and other internal teams
• Undertake reviews with software development team members.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing, failing fast, learning and problem-solving.
• Enable the removal of obstacles to project/feature delivery
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Escalate delivery issues, risks and blockers as they arise
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Validate the use of standard testing practices and test automation by project teams to ensure quality

Team Management (coaching & influencing)

• Guiding the team on how to use Agile/Scrum/SAFE practices and values to delight customers.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organisation, working in a self-managed team and taking accountability for deliverables
• Coach the matrix team and individual team members in the use of Agile methods, practices, and tools
• Influence team behaviour through excellent management via Agile methodologies.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Document progress and communicate to management and stakeholders.
• Ensure milestones are achieved and deadlines are met throughout project life cycle
• Assist with internal communication and improving transparency
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Guide the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices for competitive advantage.
• Facilitate discussions, decision making and conflict resolution

Governance

• Ensure relevant project governance is identified and communicated on the projects
• Adhere to Programme Management Office governance frameworks are adhered to.

Reporting

• Compile relevant project & portfolio reporting
• Ensure Project & Portfolio management tool is updated as and when required
• Generate reporting in Agile methodology for SAFE, ability to generate burn-up, burn-down charts, cadence trackers and calculating, sizing, and tracking story points and performance.

Leadership

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Encourage and support skills development:

• Actively contribute to the company's agile management community by running internal training on the agile way of work
• Develop and mentor talent and those participating in the learnership programme
• Contribute to the standardisation of Agile methodology within company.

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