Senior Agile Program Manager at Cellulant Corporation

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Determining, monitoring and reviewing programme scope, costs, schedule and expected benefits

• Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on programme-related activities
• Ensures appropriate and effective agile governance arrangements and relevant reporting and communication policies are in place and followed.
• Supports System Architect and also maintains an awareness of current technical developments that may provide opportunities to the programmes.
• Facilitate the coordinated preparation and execution of release planning for the ART. 
• Working with the ART team who prioritizes the features to be considered in the next program increment (PI) planning cycle.
• Facilitating the ART team’s refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready.
• Assists the ART in communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery.
• Ensuring effective communication and coordination for and during Program Increment planning.
• Managing change to the ART’s PI plan and the impacts of those changes.
• Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
• Understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
• Ensure the overall cost, schedule, and performance of the program.
• Analyze program budgets and estimates from participating organizations to provide direction for the overall development of all program budgets and integrated cost profiles.
• Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and oversee the development of reports and analyses that document program activity.
• Participate with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter experts and be an advocate in adopting Agile and SAFe best practices and processes.
• Act as a galvanizing force for sharing Agile and SAFe knowledge across the Value Stream.
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.

Must have experience:

• 10+ years of work experience with demonstrable proficiency in multiple disciplines / technologies / processes related to the position 
• 5+ years of Progressive active project management experience along with managing teams and / or significant complex projects.
• 3+ years of RTE / Agile Program Manager experience