Agile Delivery Lead
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit an Agile Delivery Lead for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £691/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
– Establishing a data-driven approach to workflow where estimated forecasting of outcomes is driven by logic and data insight.
– Establishing Value, Flow and Quality disciplines into the Service Enablement and Employee Enablement delivery pipeline, maximising team velocity and achievements of goals, as defined by the Technical Product Manager.
– Establishing core agile ceremonies within the team which are embraced and valued by the team collective, demonstrating continuous reflection and improvement.
– Supporting the Technical Product Managers (tPM) by owning and removing delivery blockers. The objective is to enable the tPMs to focus on forward thinking strategy, stakeholder engagement and feeding the delivery machine.
– Supporting colleagues, including the Product Manager and Technical Leads, to define, refine, prioritise and visualise the team’s roadmap and backlog, and lead the team to deliver the roadmap.
– Helping to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and continuous improvement.
– Fostering strong, cohesive team dynamics and relationships, based on the principles of team autonomy, mastery and purpose.
– Leading the team’s delivery process to deliver value early and often and to use fast feedback and inspection to drive improvements.
– Helping the team balance their capacity against demand.
– Proactively supporting and coaching team members on the most appropriate lean and agile framework and techniques and on their role value contributions to the team, e.g. as Product Manager, Technical Lead, etc.
– Actively contributing to the Agile Community of Practice.
Essential Skills:
– Servant-leading a high-performing, continuously delivering, cross-functional development or IT operations team, possibly in a role such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager or Agile Team Lead
– Applying different agile and lean approaches and supporting context
– Being framework agnostic, using the right practices for the context
– Creating lasting change towards agile and lean ways of working and delivery for the better of an organisation
– Agile product and software development using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices and the enablers required
– Engagement with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business, including product management, service design, operations, and governance groups
– Identification, creation, and visualisation of effective agile team metrics
Desirable Skills:
– Experience in working within the digital workplace domains, familiar with delivering successful business value and change, using digital products such as ServiceNow and the Microsoft 365 suite.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Establishing a data-driven approach to workflow where estimated forecasting of outcomes is driven by logic and data insight.
– Establishing Value, Flow and Quality disciplines into the Service Enablement and Employee Enablement delivery pipeline, maximising team velocity and achievements of goals, as defined by the Technical Product Manager.
– Establishing core agile ceremonies within the team which are embraced and valued by the team collective, demonstrating continuous reflection and improvement.
– Supporting the Technical Product Managers (tPM) by owning and removing delivery blockers. The objective is to enable the tPMs to focus on forward thinking strategy, stakeholder engagement and feeding the delivery machine.
– Supporting colleagues, including the Product Manager and Technical Leads, to define, refine, prioritise and visualise the team’s roadmap and backlog, and lead the team to deliver the roadmap.
– Helping to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and continuous improvement.
– Fostering strong, cohesive team dynamics and relationships, based on the principles of team autonomy, mastery and purpose.
– Leading the team’s delivery process to deliver value early and often and to use fast feedback and inspection to drive improvements.
– Helping the team balance their capacity against demand.
– Proactively supporting and coaching team members on the most appropriate lean and agile framework and techniques and on their role value contributions to the team, e.g. as Product Manager, Technical Lead, etc.
– Actively contributing to the Agile Community of Practice.
Essential Skills:
– Servant-leading a high-performing, continuously delivering, cross-functional development or IT operations team, possibly in a role such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager or Agile Team Lead
– Applying different agile and lean approaches and supporting context
– Being framework agnostic, using the right practices for the context
– Creating lasting change towards agile and lean ways of working and delivery for the better of an organisation
– Agile product and software development using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices and the enablers required
– Engagement with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business, including product management, service design, operations, and governance groups
– Identification, creation, and visualisation of effective agile team metrics
Desirable Skills:
– Experience in working within the digital workplace domains, familiar with delivering successful business value and change, using digital products such as ServiceNow and the Microsoft 365 suite.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
