Description:
Ensuring the synchronization, communication, and business relationship of portfolio strategies from the Strategic Portfolio Committee and their translation across Agile Release Trains (ARTs). They facilitate the deconstruction process of Epics, the largest and most important initiatives, from the portfolio Kanban through further definition, prioritization, and impact assessment to the value streams.
Essential Functions
- Identifies and communicates priorities and dependencies across ARTs and the broader business community.
- Ensurrd that business priorities are visible, established, and communicated to optimize efficiency.
- Facilitates regular cross-ART meetings to ensure communication of prioritization, alignment of dependencies, identification of risks, and forecasting of business value delivery
- Facilitates ad-hoc workshops, meetings, ceremonies, etc., to remove barriers, improve collaboration, mitigate risk, and ensure information flow between the Portfolio, ARTs, and stakeholders
- Maintaind preference for action over inaction when faced with incomplete knowledge or limited data sets.
- Updates, tracking, and communicating the status of initiatives through the Kanban phases and monitoring the timing of release milestones.
- Builds and maintains relationships with Cross-OpCo stakeholders at all levels to coordinate and standardize metrics presented to the Portfolio Executive Leadership, ARTs, and other governing bodies
- Creates and maintains desk procedures for recurring job duties.
- Researches and recommends process improvements, technological solutions, etc., in collaboration with the Agile Enablement Office, Portfolio Review Team, Cross-Opco representatives, and third-party solution providers
- Assist the Manager - Portfolio Execution Office with issues and escalating to Epic Owners or executive leadership as needed to facilitate release or project completion.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Education
Bachelors Degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline required.
Minimum Experience
Five (5) years of experience in a technical or professional position with at least two (2) years leading end-to-end cross-functional projects.