Agile Delivery Manager
360insights
- Whitby, ON
- $84,500-102,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage initiatives and multiple development teams with agile and project management methodologies from discovery through to delivery with assigned teams
- Leads collaborative and detailed delivery cycle and large initiative planning that merges product/engineering requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases from initial discovery through to development and release.
- Monitor cycle delivery and larger initiative progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and releases.
- Measure and monitor team dynamics and performance, and provide agile coaching and training to improve.
- Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide stability in process, a sense of urgency, encouragement to team members, identify impediments/blockers/distractions, work to create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Coach Product, Technical leadership, team members and business leaders on agile methodologies
- Holds the team accountable for their responsibilities in defining initiative readiness and vision, user story writing, story mapping, prioritization techniques, technical solutioning, software build, acceptance, feedback loops, etc.
- Manage proposed modifications on changes to delivery plans with stakeholders to review, analyze impact, approve and implement beneficial changes.
- Lead all Agile ceremonies, including but not limited to daily standup, refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, demonstrations and retrospective, release planning
- Lead cross-functional teams to manage product releases/system upgrades that deliver the 360Insights vision.
- Leadership experience and strong teaming/facilitation abilities
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience using agile and project management tools and methods: Jira Scrum/Kanban, Agile Roadmap and Gantt charts, Team Retro, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat tools
- Technical background with knowledge of software development and web technologies
- Minimum 2-3 years project management/scrum master experience in software development
- Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques such as: User Stories, Journey mapping, Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Release Management, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
- A Plus:
- Passionate about all things Atlassian
- Experience as a site admin with Atlassian Products (Jira Software, Confluence, Atlas, Jira Service Management)
- Experience as a Jira site admin managing common configurations
- Experience managing Jira Permissions
- Experience creating and implementing Jira best practices
- Experience with Jira hygiene
- Experience with Atlassian New feature consideration and yearly renewal
- Experience working for a fast growth SaaS company