Program/Project Management Lead
Project Role Description : Manage overall delivery of a program or project to achieve business outcomes. Define project scope and monitor execution of deliverables. Communicate across multiple stakeholders to manage expectations, issues and outcomes.
Must have skills : Agile Process Coaching
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
As a Agile Coach, a typical day involves overseeing the comprehensive delivery of programs or projects to ensure alignment with business objectives. This role requires defining the scope of projects clearly and continuously monitoring the progress of deliverables to maintain quality and timeliness. The position demands active communication with various stakeholders to effectively manage expectations, address challenges, and ensure successful outcomes. The role is dynamic, requiring coordination across different teams and adapting to evolving project needs to drive overall success.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Expected to be an SME, collaborate and manage the team to perform.
- Responsible for team decisions.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to assess current ways of working and design strategies for agile adoption and continuous improvement.
- Coach teams, leaders, and stakeholders on agile principles, frameworks, and scaled agile practices.
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and ceremonies to build agile capability and maturity.
- Deliver Agile and Scaled Agile training.
- Support Agile Release Train (ART) launches and Quarterly Planning to enable scaled delivery.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across teams.
- Mentor leaders to strengthen portfolio level agility and drive mindset shift.
- Drive adoption of Lean Portfolio Management practices and enterprise agile tooling.
- Regularly assess and report on agile maturity to inform coaching approaches and improvement plans.
- Advocate for the use of agile metrics and objective measures to track progress and outcomes.
Professional & Technical Skills:
- Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Agile Process Coaching.
- Strong knowledge of agile frameworks and methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.
- Proven experience as an Agile Coach in a globally distributed environment, successfully guiding teams through agile adoption.
- Deep knowledge of agile frameworks and scaled agile approaches (SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Scrum Scale, etc.).
- Strong facilitation and influencing skills to drive alignment across teams and leadership.
- Ability to think creatively and solve complex problems in a dynamic environment.
- Experience of Agile training material creation and delivery.
- SAFe Practice Consultant certified or equivalent.
Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 9 years of experience in Agile Process Coaching.
- This position is based at our Gurugram office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.
Gurugram
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