Purpose
As the Agile Delivery Manager, you are a Manager and true leader who serves the Scrum Team, and larger organisation. You are accountable for the Squad’s effectiveness and outcomes in:
- Leading the Squad in Sprint delivery; enabling the achievement of the committed value within each product increment and technically prioritised Sprint backlog
- Creating the sprint goal and maintaining Sprint backlog
- Collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner for building and maintaining the Product Roadmap
- Breaking down the product vision & strategy into tactical execution.
You are responsible for driving the removal of impediments & blockers, risks and dependencies enabling the Squad to improve their ways of working and increase then maintain their ability to deliver quality outcomes with speed and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Align to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide.
- Lead, train and coach the organisation in its Agile adoption.
- Provide leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/ Product Owner, Analysts, Developers, Testers and Lead Engineer.
- Build and maintain the technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint.
- Collaborate with the Product Manager/ Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
- Sustain a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
- Ensure that BAU change & maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap.
- Provide or seek clarity with and for the Squad, to ensure that the why, what and how is known by all.
- Works with the squad to check/challenge/encourage their quality & pace throughout the increment & sprint.
- Ensure that Agile events are positive, productive and timeboxed and liaises with Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working.
- Encourage the Squads understanding of the 7IM Agile framework and enable them to improve their practices.
- Empower the Squad to self-manage, understand, and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely.
- Effectively manage and track impediments, risks, and dependencies, dissolving them where possible.
- Enable close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team.
- Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Agile Delivery Chapter.
- Manage and integrate any 3rd party supplier effectively into the Squad delivery and ways of working.
- While not directly interacting with customers, your actions should align with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles, thereby contributing to fair and beneficial outcomes for our clients.
- Adherence to all applicable compliance standards and be practices at all times.
- Acting consistently in accordance with 7IM VPVPs.
- Other, as reasonably required by your manager and 7IM