Sr. Agilist

Lead Agilist

Qualification:Science / Engineering graduate

Responsibility:Assessment

Support for the Assessment.

Maturity Assessments.

Participate the maturity assessment & Implement recommendations.

Product Planning.

Accountable and responsible for sprint planning.

Participate in release level planning.

Help PO prioritizes the backlog items both technical and functional.

Coordinate and resolve dependency within and outside the team.

Requirement Management.

.Facilitate the team and Product Owner to maintain a healthy team backlog.

. Help PO to prioritize the backlog and meet Business outcomes.

.Help the team to define and meet DOD/DOR.

.Help the team write the requirement in an appropriate format (for example user story).

. Support team to maintain the ALM tool.

Construction.

.Guide the teams towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring cross term coordination.

facilitate daily standup meetings, sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.

. Drive and support the team by removing impediments.

liaise between the team (inclusive of developers, testers) and other practices to ensure focus on each release.

identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.

Encourage best engineering practice like Definition of Done, Coding standards and compliance, automation, TDD, pair programming, mobbing, etc as appropriate. Remove interferences to ensure the team is working efficiently (for specific accounts/projects).

act as a bridge for distributed scrum.

track the velocity.

.Make sure user stories delivered incrementally within the sprint.

.Ensure Tractability across the lifecycle.

Requirement Verification and Validation.

Help the PO/ Proxy PO to validate the completed feature during the sprint.

Configuration and Release Management.

Understanding of Source control and branching strategy Continuous integration knowledge and best practices.

Deep understanding of deployment and release management principles.

Configuration and Release Management.

Understanding of Source control and branching strategy Continuous integration knowledge and best practices.

Deep understanding of deployment and release management principles.

Enterprise Architecture.

Basics of solution design and Architecture awareness of the project.

Ability to articulate technical issues outside team to get quicker resolution.

Stakeholder management.

Able to represent the team in Scrum of Scrum and other program governance to provide/update teams outcomes and challenges.

Effectively persuade the team members towards achieving better outcomes, Conflict resolution, and positive synergy within a team.

Ability to set up the team level metric in ALM.

Documentation.

Help team to maintain the right level of documentation required for effective knowledge management.

Process Improvements and Adherence.

. Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint.

filter the learning for the next sprint.

identify best practices and ensure that they are implemented.

document the learning / outcome of retrospection notes.

Knowledge Management.

Collaborate with Delivery Leads to set up Knowledge Management processes and practices.

Nominate team members to conduct audits on the same and emphasize knowledge sharing across the engagement.

drive the creation of knowledge assets from the engagements.

People management.

Help to recruit talents for the practice.

Ability to resolve conflicts with in the team.

Learning.

. Understand the agile framework customized for the current program.

. Identify and complete Digital eleering and class room trainings.

. Guide team in identifying appropriate learning courses/certifications.

. Complete mandatory trainings and ensure compliance with org mandated learning plans.

Identify the technical skills required by the team to become cross skilled help them acquire it.

Coaching & Facilitating.

. Coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, selforganization etc.

explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and teamGuide development of technical artifacts that can be used for future reference.

Training.

Identify the training requirement for the team.

Support the training.

Responsible for the upskilling and cross skilling of the team to avoid person dependencies with in team.

Leadership and Self management.

. Ability to lead Single Geographically distributed teams.

. Empower team members and drive towards common practice goals.

. Establish best practices for team activities.

. Manage conflicts of interests and opinion among team members.

. Motivate and inspire people to achieve excellence in practice/project activities.

Must Have Skills

CX-Scrum Master

Good To Have Skills

NPD/NPI

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 23 2024

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