Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
- Drives program/release level processes for an Agile Release Train demonstrating servant leadership, coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy
- Facilitates Program Increment planning meetings with leadership, business stakeholders, and product management and delivery teams on the Agile Release Train(s).
- Support program level meetings in partnership with product management and system architect(s) to aid in the preparation, readiness and prioritization of features for future PI planning sessions.
- Identification of opportunities for improving the agile practices across the voice portfolio, coaching scrum masters, sustaining and improving existing agile release trains and extending the Agile release train to other portfolios.
- Ensures strategic alignment for the train across organizations and teams
- Partners with Business Owners, Product Managers and Product Owners to help assure strategy, vision and road map alignment and execution
- Ensure value is achieved by the train on behalf of end users via the program predictability measure
- Assists with economic decision making by supporting Program Epic and Feature estimations by program team and roll up to program/ release level visibility (overarching team roles)
- Collaborates with other RTEs to coordinate cross-train dependencies
Coaching & Committed Improvement
- Live the Agile and SAFe Values & Principles
- Be uncomfortably open in all you do
- Be coachable yourself: be open to feedback and committed to continuous personal improvement
- Demonstrate being a lifelong learner
- Challenge the status quo gracefully
- Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams
- Escalates impediments, handles risks, dependencies and resourcing needs
- Aggregates and drives team Program Increment objectives into Program/ Release objectives to ensure successful delivery
- Mentor and coach to Agile Release Train on Agile/Lean/SAFe Principles
- Drives program/ release level continuous improvements
- Participates in enterprise program management improvement and standardization activities
- Inspires collaboration and quality practices between system architects & Agile teams
- Oversight to ensure the timely identification and prioritization of technical infrastructure to support implementation of priority features and enablers e.g. Architectural Runway
- Promotes compliance with SDLC standards across the Agile Release Train
- Ensures data integrity for the Agile Release Train within the Agile Management tools.