Programme Manager, Agile

6 months ago

Midrand, South Africa DBSA Full time

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Agile and Project Planning**
- Provide the Agile team with tools and techniques to increase collaboration, innovation, adaptability and flexibility to perform at the highest level.
- Establish and embed an adapted Agile Manifesto to govern the principles of Agile development within DBSA innovation and moonshot projects.
- Employ and embed the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework and toolkit to guide the Agile teams’ way of working (WoW).
- Define Agile project scope(s), schedule(s), sprints and associated cadence cycles, to bring focus to regular and timely delivery of project value.
- Establish, populate and update burn down charts to indicate backlog to be completed versus total sprint time.
- Facilitate Agile Ceremonies to identify action items that have been completed, action items outstanding and barriers to success.
- Oversee and verify that team planning occurs for both current and subsequent iterations to ensure smooth transitioning from sprint to sprint.

**Agile Project Management**
- Create a flexible agile universe to incubate identified DBSA moonshot projects.
- Organise and lead daily scrums / stand-ups to conduct effective “plan, do and review” sessions.
- Leverage agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable Agile implementation.
- Employ the use of Agile Project Management tools (i.e. Kanban, Scrum, Agile, SAFe, PMBOK, PRINCE2) to summarise project statuses, progress, issues and risks.
- Oversee regular team updates relating to story card statuses and collate these into the backlog.
- Prepare, package and present information for presentation to relevant stakeholders and monitor and report on key Agile performance metrics to the DBSA leadership team.
- Perform quantitative and qualitative risk analyses to inform consequent risk responses.
- Perform quality control check-ins and integrated change controls to keep project delivery on-track.
- Correct any deviations from the project plan by removing any impediments blocking the Agile team’s progress.

**Process Management and Improvement**
- Define and manage a well-defined Agile project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.
- Analyse current Agile processes, prioritise areas of improvement, and work alongside key stakeholders to implement incremental improvements.

**Collaboration**
- Manage customer expectations for Agile project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and implementing effective systems of project governance, within the team and with strategic partners, both internally and externally.
- Lead out and promote the concepts of integration and collaboration across the Innovation projects.

**Team and Stakeholder Management**
- Foster cross-functional team collaboration to enable strong and consistent Agile project delivery
- Facilitate team development while holding teams accountable for their commitment to ensure strong team delivery.
- Leverage organisational resources to improve capacity for Agile project delivery.
- Provide transferable skills, frameworks and toolkits to promote empowerment of the team.
- Train team members on Agile, Design Thinking and User Experience concepts and frameworks to promote out-of-the-box solutioning.
- Encourage sustainable project sprints to enable team accountability to Agile project commitments.
- Coach single / multiple team squads to ensure high quality of delivery.
- Coach Executive Management and key DBSA stakeholders on agile ways of working to inculcate an Agile mindset.
- Map and develop a network of diverse stakeholders whose influence is critical to the achievement of identified plans and objectives.

**Reporting**

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- Provide oversight and guidance on the quality and accuracy of the reporting compiled by the Programme Co-ordinator (Agile) role.
- Meet report requirements and deliver timeous and high-quality reports to all relevant bodies, both internally and externally.

**Expertise & Technical Competencies**:
**Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelors’ Degree (field agnostic) - NQF Level 7.
- PRINCE2 or PMP Certification.
- A relevant Scrum Master certification in at least one of the following:

- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I or II) or
- PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner.
- Minimum 4 - 7 years of demonstrated track record experience and strong delivery in Agile / Project Management environments.

**Desirable Requirements**
- Any other relevant Agile or coaching certifications are advantageous - i.e. Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) or general coaching outside of the Agile universe.

**Technical Competencies**
- Deliver Results and Customer Value
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Decision Making
- Tolerance of Ambiguity
- Credible Activist
- Strategic and Conceptual Formulator
- Strong Servant Leadership
- Entrepreneurial and Commercial Acumen
- Maverick app

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