DELIVERY MANAGER
Delivery and Projects Team – Johannesburg, Gauteng
Overview:
The Delivery Manager is accountable for guiding, coaching, teaching and assisting
The Delivery
The Delivery Manager must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to.
Key Responsibilities:
- Track and communicate team commitments, velocity
and sprint/release progress - Facilitate sprint planning, daily
stand ups and backlog refining meeting ensuring clear communication between all members of the Scrum team - Facilitate sprint retrospective meetings creating an environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis
of problem solving - Facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Apply Coaching (Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices)
- Apply Mentoring (Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices)
- Ensure project management and
scrum tools are maintained up to date for all assigned projects - Identify, escalate and remove impediments to sprint goals
- Provide leadership to
help the teamachieve its maximum and sustainable Sprint Velocity - Ensure Sprint Goals including throughput, predictability
and software quality are met - Identify areas of improvement in the Software and Product Development processes to increase work productivity and efficiency
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum and Lean methodologies
- 3-5 years of Agile / Project Management experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with
a high attention to detail Collaborative approach to driving decisions- Ability to communicate effectively to different levels of the organizational stakeholders
- Identify and assess problems and work with the team to
solve them with a sense of urgency - Strong
organisational skills and ability to analyze various inputs to help prioritize work - Ability to work with multiple Scrum teams and juggle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently
- Experience managing projects using Atlassian tools like Jira, Jira Agile, Confluence, etc.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, time-compressed and dynamic environment
- Maintain an outstanding attitude, and excellent professional written and verbal communication as well as interpersonal skills
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Location
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Department
Delivery and Projects
Employment Type
Full-Time
Minimum Experience
Experienced
Compensation
Market Related