Position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices. Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts. Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges. Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels.
Responsibilities: Duties and Responsibilities:
Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management
Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
Removes impediments for the agile teams
Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).
Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology. Communications: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience. Risk Management: The individual is responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function's risk management. Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Richmond, VA (Remote)
Salary
$60–$63 Per Hour
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Coachingunmatched
Cross-Functionalunmatched
Delivery Managementunmatched
Detail Orientedunmatched
Industry Standardsunmatched
Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Negotiation Skillsunmatched
Order Deliveryunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Product Supportunmatched
Productivity Managementunmatched
Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
Reporting Skillsunmatched
Risk Managementunmatched
ScrumMasterunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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