Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train on Agile practices and develops their understanding of Agile principles
Executes program increment session for release train and facilitates Agile release train ceremonies
Provides status updates regarding Agile Release Train plans, delivery, timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership while communicating within the Agile Release Train to support delivery against program commitments
Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
Measures Agile Release Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Agile Release Train to identify improvement opportunities
Collaborates with the product management team and ensures the program has a healthy product and program backlog
Defines norms and agreements for the Agile Release Train and enforces the agreements
Skills:
Agile Practices
Collaboration
Influence
Solution Design
Stakeholder Management
Architecture
Business Acumen
DevOps Practices
Solution Delivery Process
Technical Strategy Development
Financial Management
Result Orientation
Risk Management
Test Engineering
User Experience Design
Ability to perform Scrum Master duties as needed.
Responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART). Coordinates and facilitates the ART ceremonies, manages dependencies across teams in the ART, and provides visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment.
Ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery.
Manages financials for the ART and assist with resource planning. Helps define norms/agreements for the ART and enforces the agreements. Coordinates and facilitates ART ceremonies – e.g. Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync (or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, Retrospective.
In collaboration with the PM, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog. Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART. Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.
Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership. Ensures Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
Measures ART delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities. Captures data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs. Individual Contributor.