Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Why BT
We've always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world's first telecommunications company. At our heart we're a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.
Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we'll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that's you and what you're looking for, we'd love you to be part of our future
Responsibilities - Accountable for guiding the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
- Uses empirical data to help scrum team to assess their 'Scrum Maturity', optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
- Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization
- Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
- Work closely with Product Managers and the Strategy team to make BT's digital visions a reality!
- Manage all Scrum ceremonies
- Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects. Completion of some work may depend on non-agile work teams Sequence project initiatives to increase velocities across teams and reduce friction.
- Build and maintain motivated project squads and teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards.
- Protect the team, ensure their collaboration and a high level of communication as well as concentrate their focus on what is most important.
- Partners with Product Owners & Scrum team to communicate delivery of work product and escalates key risks and issues impeding team effectiveness.
- Be a change agent - challenging the status quo where it does not enable the squad.
- Facilitate regular stakeholder communication – updates and reporting as required for the business.
Skills - Proven experience of agile delivery management across complex portfolios of digital projects.
- Experience of waterfall delivery management.
- Experience of Scrum and Prince2 methodologies, and proven application of these to successful delivery.
- Experience of methods, tools and planning used in digital projects.
- Experience in all aspects of systems delivery, transition and management, both of back-office and customer-facing systems.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and understanding of strategic and tactical business change needs in IT projects.
- Coaching, influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
- Management and delivery of large and complex projects within a corporate environment.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders across multiple departments to deliver a vision or goal with various moving parts
Experience - Extensive experience in the role of a agile delivery manager mastering delivering cross-functional change using Agile (i.e. across business and technology)
- Demonstrated coaching experience, with a strong servant leadership philosophy.
- Demonstrated experience fostering and empowering high performing teams.
- Experience of working across a wide range of internal and external technology suppliers to align plans and deliver business outcomes.
- Context-specific Agile techniques (e.g. XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, TDD, Automated Testing, etc.)
- Domain-specific knowledge of applicable technologies
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