About This Role
This Delivery Manager role involves leading and motivating cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of sprints and successful project delivery. The position acts as a central communication point, foreseeing risks and organizing activities to maximize team productivity. It suits a seasoned professional with a strong understanding and experience in agile practices.
Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, organize, and motivate cross-functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility
- Act as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
- Act as a change agent and adapt processes to maximize team productivity
- Coach Product leaders on roadmap and backlog management
- Coach the agile team on user story writing, sizing, and acceptance criteria definition
- Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps
- Remove impediments for the agile teams
- Ensure efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner
- Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives
- Partner with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary
- Work with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
- Develop reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time
- Keep team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint)
Requirements
- Full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices
- Ability to provide varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influence activities on business-critical efforts
- Serve as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges
- Use industry-standard best practices to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels
- Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience
- Responsibility for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function's risk management
- Ability to work independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives
- Make decisions within established or widely accepted standards
- Achieve assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience
Important Details
About the Company
The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. They have a presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, serving more than four hundred clients across various markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5 IT consulting company with a global presence.
