Agile Delivery Manager

Cynet Systems•Richmond, VA

About The Position

The Agile Delivery Manager provides delivery management oversight and directly influences business-critical efforts. This seasoned professional serves as a point of contact for removing impediments and coaching cross-functional teams through challenges, using industry-standard practices to help deliver goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables while supporting compliance with discipline processes and governance channels. The role works independently on broad assignments or under general direction and makes decisions within established standards.

Requirements

Seasoned professional with a full understanding of and experience executing agile practices.
Comprehensive knowledge of concepts and principles in the functional area, including the ability to coach teams on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology.
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention-to-detail, oral communication, and written communication skills tailored to the intended audience.
Ability to work independently on broad assignments or under general direction, making decisions within established or widely accepted standards.
Ability to achieve assigned or planned results using professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.

Responsibilities

Plan, lead, organize, and motivate cross-functional teams working on efforts of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
Serve as a primary communication hub between functional departments and teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities so sprints are completed on time.
Adapt processes as a change agent to maximize team productivity.
Coach Product leaders on roadmap and backlog management.
Coach agile teams on writing and sizing user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps.
Remove impediments for agile teams.
Ensure efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning, PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Partner with project and release managers on production deployment activities as necessary.
Work with Product Owners on short- and long-term release planning and maintaining a healthy backlog prepared for execution.
Develop reports on sprint execution status, schedules, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
Keep the team accountable for delivering planned PI and sprint outcomes.
Apply risk management discipline in decision-making and contribute to the function's risk management.