Job Description

Job Description

Product Backlog Management

• Initializes and updates the Product Backlog.
• Provides needed methods and tools to insure the delivery velocity of the Sprint and optimize productivity of the Scrum Team.
• Facilitates workshops and supports the Product Owner in its approach to prioritization by value.
• Challenge the Product Owner if the Product Backlog deliverables do not meet expectations in terms of value.

Animation of the Scrum team following the principles of Scrum methodology

• Coaches the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
• Facilitates Scrum Events / Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, development work, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective…).
• Ensures that Agile / Kanban values ??and principles are in place and used by the team over time.
• Ensures that the team members are motivated and committed to promoting rapid and sustainable pace.
• Protects the team from external disturbances.
• Helps the team to address roadblocks and operational problems and ensures the team is in a continuous improvement spirit.

Project Management

• Shares the progress data with the project stakeholders during the Sprint Reviews.
• Ensures that the User Stories/ Use cases requested by the Product Owner are mature enough to be implemented in the next Sprint.
• Leads the Sprint Planning and ensures that the team is committed to a realistic scope.
• Ensures the progress of Daily Meetings and capture the progress and obstacles to deal with.
• Ensures the required engineering practices are in place and used over time, in particular, continuous integration daily product.
• Animates demonstrations at the end of each product iteration.

Monitoring

• Escalades to management (Product Owner, director…) the obstacles that s(he) can’t handle at her/his level.
• Provides the required dashboards to monitor the progress of the product.
• Helps the Project Manager to prepare the Steering Committee and attends the meeting.
• Ensures the completion of the tasks involved in the Sprint and the definition of next releases in the project.
• Contributes with the team to Quality Assurance (QA) measures

Job Requirements

• Hands-on project management experience and knowledge with techniques for planning, organizing and monitoring multiple projects simultaneously.
• Hands-on experience of Lean Agile methodology and Sprint cycles.
• Must be a result- oriented individual and capable of influencing others in a collaborative and sometimes virtual environment.
• Strong coordination and organization skills, required.
• Conflict management and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, required.
• Promotes, supports, implements and helps everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules and values in accordance with the project approach.
• Organizes the work within the team to optimize productivity during the Sprint and insure the velocity of the sprint.
• Facilitates the relationship and ensures alignment between the Product Owner, who supports the business stakes, and the team in charge of developing the solution to satisfy them.
• For each Sprint, he/she will be in charge of the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, the development work, the Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective.
• He/she will assure that everyone focuses on the work of the Sprint and the goals of the Scrum Team.