Senior Agile Delivery Manager - Agile Kanban Lead

London  ‐ Onsite
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  • Oversee and manage a team of Agile Delivery Managers;
  • Providing guidance, mentoring and training in agile delivery across the team;
  • Manage one or more agile projects, typically to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital team;
  • Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently;
  • Defining project needs and feeding these into the programme/portfolio process;
  • Work with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories;
  • Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team;
  • Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team;
  • Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (Alpha/beta/production);
  • Actively participating in the Delivery Manager community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, helping to ensure that products are delivered in a manner that is aligned with wider business service development activities.
  • Work with the Product Owner and a genuinely co-located multi-disciplinary team of approximately 30 people; policy experts, interaction designers, business analysts, technical and security staff to design, build and iterate our services.
  • Remove blockers that relate to our service delivery activities. 
  • Create an environment conducive to self-organising people and teams, and be ready to step in with advice where needed.
  • Get the best out of both Agile and non-Agile team members with guidance and support in understanding requirements.
  • Maintain discipline in an environment with conflicting priorities and demands.
  • Help to bridge the different disciplines in the team in order to enable effective delivery from everyone.
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Mercator IT Solutions
Published at
20.09.2014
Project ID:
778477
Contract type
Freelance
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