Job Description
Reports To: Manager Agile Delivery
Division: Information Technology
Mission
- To provide comprehensive assistance in business change requests initiation, planning, execution, control and closure to facilitate IT agile deliveries.
- To help facilitate scrum to the larger team by ensuring the scrum framework is followed.
Description
- Assist in compiling project charter including projecting project scope, problem statement and goal statemen
- Coordinate all Scrum activities including sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups for assigned teams
- Work with the Product owner to define Product roadmap for the Tribes, handle backlogs and new requests
- Coach team members on Agile frameworks and practices
- Act as the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)
- Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments, contribute to establishing the Sprint Goal; monitor Sprint Progress;
- Ensure adherence to all PSCOM processes towards delivering Epics and User stories
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
- Measure, analyse, and report on progress per Scrum team by identifying team velocity, story-points, estimation, Burndown Charts, Burn Up Charts and other agreed parameters
- Gather relevant status and assist in providing with up-to-date information on all active sprint deliverables (where applicable) to Agile Manager
- Track sprint activities in compliance with planning guidelines and plans
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Develop Sprint plans for all assigned scrum team
- Schedule and track quality assurance reviews within the Scrum team and assist with formal success reviews
- Prepare and circulate status update reports including burndown chart, burn-up chart
- Track and monitor identified risks and proactively escalate risks in accordance with related escalation rules (where applicable) and procedures.
Education:
- First degree in any related discipline
- Certification in Agile practices (e.g. PSMi, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CSM, ICP)
- Fluent in English
Experience:
3 - 7 years of experience which includes;
- Experience working in a small to medium organization
- Candidates must have good use of computer and JIRA + Confluence software packages
- Experience in managing small to medium sized teams