Agile Delivery Manager
Description✓Agile Delivery Manager
✓£725 per day
✓Location: Exeter
✓Akton Resourcing are currently working with the Met Office to recruit an Agile Delivery Manager to join the team on a 6-month contract
✓The Delivery Manager role breaks down into three main areas, these are; Agile & lean practices, Team health & happiness and delivery support
✓The Delivery Manager will be responsible for:
✓* Leading on agile and lean practices.
✓* Using a variety of agile and lean tools and techniques in order to help the team keep a delivery, and learning cadence that helps to remain focused on delivering value against the product vision.
✓* Building and maintaining motivated teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards.
✓* Protecting the team and ensuring the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important.
✓* Coaching team members and others, facilitating continuous improvement and applying the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment.
✓* Proactively managing dependencies, overcoming obstacles and getting the best value against constraints.
✓* Managing risks, budgets and people.
✓* Challenging and improving organisational processes.
✓Main Responsibilities:
✓* Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well.
✓* Act as a Scrum Master where required, according to the Scrum Guide.
✓* Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.
✓* Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
✓* Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
✓* Coach and mentor both team members and other others, to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
✓Skills required:
✓* Agile and Lean practices- Can lead on a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques, can provide coaching on these tools and can also represent and be an advocate
✓* Commercial Management- You can identify and use appropriate commercial frameworks
✓You can identify the right purchasing strategy for your organisations, working with internal commercial colleagues when needed
✓You can monitor the performance of third parties and build relationships with them and internal colleagues, to support effective delivery
✓* Financial Management- You can support effective budget management within the constraints of a project
✓You can monitor projected budgets against expenditure.
✓* Communicating between the technical and non-technical- You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context
✓You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
✓* Life cycle perspective- You can understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run them
✓You can maintain a product or process through delivery phases, into live and then into retirement.
✓* Maintaining delivery momentum- You can solve issues and unblock problems
✓You can lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments
✓You can engage elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks
✓* Making a process work- You can effectively focus on the outcome
✓You can challenge and improve disproportionate organisational processes where it impacts the pace of the team
✓You can identify what works best for the team and when to sue certain processes
✓You can understand that all steps in a process must add value and can influence and make positive changes to the organisation.
✓* Planning- You can take a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping
✓You can communicate plans, planning assumptions and progress to a range of stakeholders.
✓* Team dynamics and collaboration- You can build successful delivery teams and can understand team styles and how people work together
✓You can maintain, influence and motivate a team and can give and receive feedback
✓You can ensure the health of the team and support conflict resolution, improving team performance
✓Candidates will be considered against the DDaT framework for Delivery Managers, and candidates should ensure that they align their applications to show how each area is covered- https://[url removed]/government/publications/delivery-manager-skills-they-need/delivery-manager-skills-they-need
✓Start Date: ASAP Show more →
✓£725 per day
✓Location: Exeter
✓Akton Resourcing are currently working with the Met Office to recruit an Agile Delivery Manager to join the team on a 6-month contract
✓The Delivery Manager role breaks down into three main areas, these are; Agile & lean practices, Team health & happiness and delivery support
✓The Delivery Manager will be responsible for:
✓* Leading on agile and lean practices.
✓* Using a variety of agile and lean tools and techniques in order to help the team keep a delivery, and learning cadence that helps to remain focused on delivering value against the product vision.
✓* Building and maintaining motivated teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards.
✓* Protecting the team and ensuring the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important.
✓* Coaching team members and others, facilitating continuous improvement and applying the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment.
✓* Proactively managing dependencies, overcoming obstacles and getting the best value against constraints.
✓* Managing risks, budgets and people.
✓* Challenging and improving organisational processes.
✓Main Responsibilities:
✓* Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well.
✓* Act as a Scrum Master where required, according to the Scrum Guide.
✓* Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.
✓* Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
✓* Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
✓* Coach and mentor both team members and other others, to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
✓Skills required:
✓* Agile and Lean practices- Can lead on a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques, can provide coaching on these tools and can also represent and be an advocate
✓* Commercial Management- You can identify and use appropriate commercial frameworks
✓You can identify the right purchasing strategy for your organisations, working with internal commercial colleagues when needed
✓You can monitor the performance of third parties and build relationships with them and internal colleagues, to support effective delivery
✓* Financial Management- You can support effective budget management within the constraints of a project
✓You can monitor projected budgets against expenditure.
✓* Communicating between the technical and non-technical- You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context
✓You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
✓* Life cycle perspective- You can understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run them
✓You can maintain a product or process through delivery phases, into live and then into retirement.
✓* Maintaining delivery momentum- You can solve issues and unblock problems
✓You can lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments
✓You can engage elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks
✓* Making a process work- You can effectively focus on the outcome
✓You can challenge and improve disproportionate organisational processes where it impacts the pace of the team
✓You can identify what works best for the team and when to sue certain processes
✓You can understand that all steps in a process must add value and can influence and make positive changes to the organisation.
✓* Planning- You can take a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping
✓You can communicate plans, planning assumptions and progress to a range of stakeholders.
✓* Team dynamics and collaboration- You can build successful delivery teams and can understand team styles and how people work together
✓You can maintain, influence and motivate a team and can give and receive feedback
✓You can ensure the health of the team and support conflict resolution, improving team performance
✓Candidates will be considered against the DDaT framework for Delivery Managers, and candidates should ensure that they align their applications to show how each area is covered- https://[url removed]/government/publications/delivery-manager-skills-they-need/delivery-manager-skills-they-need
✓Start Date: ASAP Show more →