Deputy Head Agile

Tawteen

Main Role (Overall Accountability)

Responsible for the delivery of agile products and projects, which will involve managing a portfolio of product teams. Support in aligning the delivery direction of the teams who are working under the various product portfolios/portfolio level status update on the product delivery performance.

Principal Accountabilities

• Setup and maintain the agile practice and define the processes, procedures, reporting, tooling, etc., to manage the portfolio.
• Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices.
• Support the product management team in building the product roadmap and monitor its progress to make sure that quarterly product goals are being met across the various products.
• Manage the portfolio budget.
• Manage the risks and issues that might and do arise over the course of the delivery lifecycle, as well as take measures to correct them when they occur.
• Orchestrate the Scrum of Scrums for broader planning and coordination, manage the capacity and priorities of the scrum masters and support in escalations.
• Manage and use resources across the various products and teams in the portfolio.
• Manage stakeholders who are involved in the products and interdependent projects/programs.
• Communicate with leaders across the organization to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks.
• Make sure deliverables are aligned across the products and interdependent projects/programs.
• Decide on suitable strategies and objectives.
• Lead and evaluate scrum masters, Tech leads and other staff.
• Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities.
• Apply change, risk and resource management.
• Prepare reports for Management.
• Ensure that all Agile governance (stated as well as implied) are met.
• Ensuring delivery of products/projects in agreed time, resources and budget.
• Ensuring Product Oversight Committee meetings, sprint ceremonies and adequate Project reporting.

Skills and Competencies

• Proven experience as a Project/Program Manager. Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods.
• Deep knowledge of agile practices, frameworks, and techniques.
• Good analytical, planning, implementation, problem-solving and time management skills.
• Outstanding leadership, organizational and skills.
• Excellent team management ability; Knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; working knowledge of program/project management software (MS Project etc.)
• Experience with agile planning and development tools (PPM Planview, Azure DevOps, Atlassian-Jira, Confluence, Zephyr).