Job Summary

• The main purpose of this role is to ensure overall alignment and effective delivery of the Programme Increment Planning (PI) objectives to ensure the successful delivery of Epics/Features/MVP  in line with the set governance principles and business strategy.

Job Description

Key accountabilities 

• Accountability:  Alignment of the agile release train(ART) 
• Facilitate the design process of key deliverables and secure authorisation from primary stakeholders
•  Design, implement and facilitate process to ensure alignment on key deliverables and direction to encourage collaboration and agile delivery between all parties
•  Design and implement measures to help the teams on the ART note and track PI objectives, dependencies, impediments, and delivery progress
• Facilitate the building of monitoring tools to monitor and track progress against objectives and delivery progress
• Support the design, integration, and execution of end-to-end tactical enablement strategies across the ART and the supporting infrastructure to drive the collaboration between all parties affected by the ART
• Facilitate the building of integrated enablers to drive seamless delivery of PI objectives
• Accountability: Optimisation of the Agile Release Train (ART) capabilities
• Facilitate the building and integration of capabilities to enable the execution of the agile train release capability
• Facilitate the design and implementation of service standards for the full agile train release capability
• Define, implement and monitor service level measures for the primary and secondary stakeholders (product owners, management and other stakeholders)
• Implement and drive capabilities and associated measures/analytics to optimise the ART enablement activities
• Accountability: Optimisation of delivery of Agile Release Train events
• Facilitates or ensures the facilitation of ART-level synchronisation
•  Drive simplicity, agility, innovation when conducting PI planning, inspecting and adapting events on all ART practices and processes.
•  Supports the scrum masters in effectively coaching their teams on the effective execution of all other team events such as the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning and Review and similar events
•  Drives a culture of relentless improvement, through facilitation of ART level inspect and adapt workshops.  Continuously challenges current ways of work to improve delivery, by incrementally improving quality, predictability, flow and value
• Accountability: Performance management
• Analyse and interpret data to produce detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies.
• Support the design of measures that will track daily, weekly and monthly progress/performance against strategy and tactical plans
• Ensure timeous reporting on performance
• Responsible for translating Management Information data and reports and tabling insights gained through studying such integrated business (function) reports to measure success and to realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately
• Accountability: Risk and compliance
• Responsible for:
• The effective implementation of and adherence to the risk and control framework associated with service enablement
• Driving the remediation of risk daily where control design or operational execution failed resulting in losses/breaches
• Ensuring that all compliance, regulatory, governance or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholders
• Accountability: Finance
• Develop, implement and monitor a cycle of medium-term cost improvements
• Compile a budget that aligns to delivery plans, monitor and report on variances
• Manage high-risk and problematic financial issues and contribute to the development of policy
• Accountability: People and culture management
• Apply a collaborative leadership style, create an engaging, enabling and productive work climate and enable self-organised and customer focused multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver on an outcomes-based performance basis
• Implement people strategies that drive the optimum utilisation of human capability and capacity, clarifying requirements and expected outcomes
• Achieve high performance through embedding formal development plans and informal coaching.
• Implement a robust knowledge management and agile learning system to support real-time learning and the constant communication of new ideas/learning amongst all colleagues

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Technology