Job Description

Requirements management

• Understand the nature of the business and the product in your functional pillar or service area
• Understand the relative value of requirements

Backlog management

• Organize User stories into any Epics (Major Features)
• Curate any Epics (with Product Manager)
• Work with dev team on User Story refinement
• Break any Epics into User Stories
• Organize any Epics into Releases
• Prioritize Stories within any Epics (with team)
• Assist Product Manager to Prioritize any Epics within Initiatives
• Prioritize Quick Wins (Minor Features)
• Escalates issues to Operations Manager

Scrum and Delivery Management

• Ensure Scrum stand-ups are efficient, regular, properly attended
• Ensure team maintains accurate data in the scrum tool
• Curate appropriate dashboards
• Convene and run sprint planning meetings
• Review and feed back on evolving solutions during build sprints
• Ensure regular Show-and-tells from dev team, and to key stakeholders where necessary
• Report via dashboards to the Scrum of Scrums and to the LCP Status Meeting
• Ensure any Epics progress properly though their workflows
• Agile Coaching
• Escalate issues to Operations Manager
• Ensure that retrospectives occur regularly

Line Management

• Timesheet and expense approval

Responsibilities Duties:

Requirements management

• Understand the nature of the business and the product in your functional pillar or service area
• Understand the relative value of requirements

Backlog management

• Organize User stories into any Epics (Major Features)
• Curate any Epics (with Product Manager)
• Work with dev team on User Story refinement
• Break any Epics into User Stories
• Organize any Epics into Releases
• Prioritize Stories within any Epics (with team)
• Assist Product Manager to Prioritize any Epics within Initiatives
• Prioritize Quick Wins (Minor Features)
• Escalates issues to Operations Manager

Scrum and Delivery Management

• Ensure Scrum stand-ups are efficient, regular, properly attended
• Ensure team maintains accurate data in the scrum tool
• Curate appropriate dashboards
• Convene and run sprint planning meetings
• Review and feed back on evolving solutions during build sprints
• Ensure regular Show-and-tells from dev team, and to key stakeholders where necessary
• Report via dashboards to the Scrum of Scrums and to the LCP Status Meeting
• Ensure any Epics progress properly though their workflows
• Agile Coaching
• Escalate issues to Operations Manager
• Ensure that retrospectives occur regularly

Line Management

• Timesheet and expense approval

Key Skills:

• Team achieves is objectives
• Key feature objectives achieved
• Delivery of outcomes as efficiently as possible
• Stakeholders are satisfied and happy
• Team members are satisfied and happy
• Team is cohesive and collaborative in delivery of outcomes
• Prompt escalation when needed
• Unwise delivery is avoided
• Responsibilities (likely to be pursued if key measures not being achieved)
• Ability to work across seniority levels, for example from senior management through to offshore delivery centre engineer.
• Ability to work at different levels within OCTO team, examples being requirements curation through to coding a POC or working alongside a developer to realise a design.

Experiance Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from a three-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant experience in the Leadership role.
• Ability to work across seniority levels, for example from senior management through to offshore delivery centre engineer.
• Ability to work at different levels within OCTO team, examples being requirements curation through to coding a POC or working alongside a developer to realise a design.

Benefits:

• Benefits: This may include training, health, insurance, commuting support, lunch service etc.