Principal Agilist
Company: Cognizant United States, Cognizant Technology Solu
Location: Dallas
Posted on: May 28, 2023
Job Description:
Principal Agilist Qualification: Science / Engineering graduate
Responsibility: Assessment
- 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
Keywords: Cognizant United States, Cognizant Technology Solu, Dallas , Principal Agilist, Other , Dallas, Texas
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