Agile Project Manager

Facilitate Agile ceremonies for various distributed streams (technical product delivery & DevOps onsite/offshore) including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews/showcases and release planning

Encourage collaboration and proactively seek opportunities to improve collaboration between distributed teams

Proactively plan and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of services for the designated products and projects

Assist with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information, espe-cially relative to historical team metrics, progress towards sprint and release goals, and team capacity

Manage release plans, iteration plans, and status reporting for the designated projects

Assists team with making appropriate commitments to tasks

Proactively identifies and removes blockers, limits work in progress and prevents distractions

Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements

Leads agile projects from the initial project backlog creation and planning activities through demonstration and release deployment with responsibility for all aspects of the teams produc-tivity for all phases of the project

Leads risk and issue identification, and mitigation activities with the project team including es-calating those in a proactive and professional fashion when appropriate

Ensures timely and accurate communication and distribution of project information to all ap-propriate team members and stakeholders

Identify differences in understanding and issues as they arise and elevate them to the team for resolution, or to management if needed

Manage Sprints - keeping order and ensure process, delivery, priorities are accurate and de-livered on time

Work with Product Owners to ensure that testing and feedback is completed in a timely man-ner and meeting the Sprint timelines

Facilitate cross functional collaboration and encourage self-management

Train, mentor, coach and help set up fit for purpose agile delivery models and behaviours.

Drive adoption and readiness of proposed changes

Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Originally posted on Himalayas