- Program Mgt concepts (Managing - scope, schedule,
Estimation, cost/budgets, managing stakeholders, Project life cycle/SDLC,
Release management, Information Mgt/Tools, Program metrics, creating
project plan, Tracking & Articulation, structured thought process
(STAR), communication, managing conflicts, driving sense of
urgency/Escalations, driving Continuous improvements, RCAs)
- Agile Methodologies & Ceremonies/practices
(Planning, estimation, reviews),: Safe (Product Roadmap, PI Planning),
SCRUM, Kanban, Tools – JIRA/Rally/Confluence – dashboards and inferences,
Agile metrics.
- Technical & Functional understanding: Able to
articulate and explain Product/functional flows, System design, customers,
use cases, High level design/arch of the product, CI/CD (pipelines,
branching strategies). Development experience in preferred, DevOps or
Release management roles/experience is second preference.
Requirements
- Exhibits the behaviours of Lean Management and
help multiple teams embrace agile process of Scrum, Kanban and Extreme
Programming.
- Support multiple teams with implementation of
agile rules - rules of scrum, build in quality and limiting work in progress.
- Trained as a team facilitator and is
continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve
performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
- Enable cadence and Synchronization across
multiple teams so the individual team’s backlogs and solutions are understood,
resolved, and integrated.
- Close collaboration with the product management
to keep the backlog healthy, groomed and purged.
- Organizes and accelerates a group of related
product engineering backlog items or activities across multiple teams, aligning
dependent organizations. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path
forward in challenging situations
- Creates mechanisms to effectively report out
and control execution. Recognizes complexity and creates predictable delivery
paths for large and/or complex efforts. Measurably improves, streamlines,
and/or eliminates excess processes. Utilizes cross organizational mechanisms to
describe and drive continuous improvements.
- Drives execution of an outcome from inception
through successful delivery through the full stack of the services / domains,
or an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations across the enterprise.
- Looked to as first point of contact for your
team or area. and maintains the backlogs as transparent source of truth for
status providing the right information and associated data visually about the
state backlog of the project to the right all the audience at the right all
times. Maintains backlogs as always on information radiators on batch size and
flow of work.
- Understands the business strategy and design
approaches within product, program or domain with depth to be credible and
effective with teams they work with. Can competently and independently
represent team’s services.
- Keeps abreast of evolving technology landscape.
Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs
(scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.)
- Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance.
The business outcome, program, and/or product strategy is defined, but nothing
else is. Able to get the inertia out and the epic in motion or able to get the
entropy out and start the agile ceremonies for a calm and predictable delivery
pattern
- Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise
communications/instructions to the teams through backlog grooming. Can
communicate with confidence 3+ levels up using transparent backlog.
- Understands the needs of the engineers and
technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the
services and technical assets
- Regularly review metrics and proactively seek
out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays
aligned with organization objectives
- Plays active role in mentoring and recruiting
others