Principal Agilist - Dallas, United States - Cognizant United States, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Description

Principal Agilist

Qualification:

Responsibility:

• Support for the Assessment.
• Maturity Assessments.
• Participate the maturity assessment & Implement recommendations.
• Thought Leadership.
• Always aware of what is the current trend in the market for Agile and DevOps.
• Publish Blog / articles/ participate local conference.
• Community Contribution.
• 'Attend and organize internal Agile/DevOps community events.
• Ways of working.
• Adhere to the agile framework proposed by the Coach.
• Ability to setup & influence stakeholders for new ways of working in small and medium programs/projects.
• Facilitate meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective).
• Shielding the team.
• Conflict resolutions.
• Release Forecasting.
• Removing impediments.
• Creating a communication channel (team, Product owner, stakeholder).
• Servant leader.
• Enforcing Rules.
• Data driven mindset (Loves math).
• Uses data in retros to focus on process improvements.
• Mastered team level metrics and how to present to clients.
• Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap.
• Participate and support Product Owner / Product manager in series of workshop to arrive MVP.
• Understand the overall product vision roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into teamspecific release planning and sprint planning.
• Product Planning.
• Accountable and responsible for Release planning, sprint planning and dependency management across multiple teams.
• Help PO derive MVP and prioritize the backlog items for both technical and functional.
• Ability to play the role of Release Train Engineer in Scaled agile programs.
• Requirement Management.
• Facilitate the team and Product Owner to maintain a healthy Program & team backlog.
• Help PO & Product manager to prioritize the backlog and meet Business outcomes.
• Help the team to define and meet DOD/DOR.
• Help the PO/Product managers to write the requirement (EPIC/US) in an appropriate format.
• *Setup and support team to maintain the ALM tool.
• Construction.
• Guide the team towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring cross term coordination.
• facilitate daily standup meetings, sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.
• Drive and support the team by removing impediments.
• liaise between the team (inclusive of developers, testers) and other practices to ensure focus on each release.
• identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.
• Encourage & Pilot best engineering practice like Definition of Done, Coding standards and compliance, automation, TDD, pair programming, mobbing, etc as appropriate.
• Remove interferences to ensure the team is working efficiently (for specific accounts/projects).
• act as a bridge for distributed scrum.
• track the velocity.
• *Make sure user stories delivered incrementally within the sprint.
• *Ensure Tractability across the lifecycle.
• Requirement Verification and Validation.
• Help the PO/ Proxy PO to validate the completed feature during the sprint.
• Ability to validate the program increment and facilitate the program increment demos.
• Configuration and Release Management.
• Understanding of Source control and branching strategy Continuous integration of knowledge and best practices.
• Deep understanding of deployment and release management principles.
• Ability to coordinate release across multiple teams and manage production rollout at the program level.
• Awareness of industryrecommended tools for Continuous delivery pipeline.
• Enterprise Architecture.
• 'Basic understanding of solution design and Architecture awareness of the project/program.
• Ability to articulate technical issues outside team to get quicker resolution.
• Ability to support architects in evolving architectural runway.
• Stakeholder management.
• Able to represent the team/coordinate in Scrum of Scrum and other program governance to provide/update teams outcomes and challenges.
• Effectively persuade the team members towards achieving better outcomes, Conflict resolution, and positive synergy within the team.
• Participate and contribute to programlevel governance meetings.
• Ability to configure program level metric in ALM tool.
• Documentation.
• 'Help team to maintain the right level of documentation required for effective knowledge management.
• Ability to brainstorm the effectiveness of document and secure acceptance across the program to optimize continuouslyBusiness Development.
• Should able to support business development with in the program for any incremental scope or new products/services for the same customer / programProcess Improvements and Adherence.
• *Identify the need to bring in scrum tools or practices to improve productivity and build collaboration.
• review process to ensure all scrum practices are being followed.
• Drive retrospection at the end of each sprint.
• filter the learning for the next sprint.
• identify best practices and guide teams under purview to implement them.
• guide scrum teams to document the learning / outcome of retrospection notes.
• Identify interdependencies and how to handle the same.
• Knowledge Management.
• *Collaborate with Delivery Leads to set up Knowledge Management processes and practices.
• *Nominate team members to conduct audits on the same and emphasize knowledge sharing across the engagement.
• drive the creation of knowledge assets from the engagements.
• People management.
• Support for recruitment activities and ability to mentor guide SM level 1 resources to develop their role to next level.
• Ability to resolve conflicts across teams.
• Learning.
• *Understand the agile framework customized for the current program.
• Understand POD based delivery model.
• Identify and complete Digital eleering and class room trainings.
• Guide team in identifying appropriate learning courses/certifications.
• Complete mandatory trainings and ensure compliance with org mandated learning plans.
• Identify the technical skills required by the team to become cross skilled help them acquire it.
• Coaching & Facilitating.
• *Coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, selforganization etc.
• explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team.
• *Cross leverage artifacts from other projects to build process efficiency and benefits of implementing the agile process.
• coach and mentor the client product owner & business stakeholders on the process, methodology, acceptance criteria, use case etc.
• Share the best practices across programs.
• Share the process improvement suggestions across programs.
• Training.
• Plan for capability development, identify training initiatives needed across multiple teams and organize for the sameLeadership and Self management.
• Ability to lead multiple teams geography wise and domain wise.
• Empower team and drive towards common practice goals.
• Establish best practices for team activities (project/practice) in the workplace.
• Manage conflicts of interests and opinion among team members.
• *Motivate and inspire people to achieve excellence in practice/project activities.

Must Have Skills

• Agile