Agile Program Manager - Houston, TX

July 01, 2019

Agile Program Manager - Houston, TX - Long Term

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Job Title: Agile Program Manager

Location: Houston, TX

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

The Agile Program Manager will provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers in ways that promote the company’s culture. This person will also oversee the progress of these projects. The ideal candidate is an excellent leader and has experience in managing staff of different disciplines to produce results in a timely manner. They will also be able to develop efficient strategies and tactics with the Agile Delivery Team. The goal is to ensure that all projects under the Refresh Program will deliver the desirable outcome to our organization.

This Program manager understands the project management process and can conduct projects in accordance with the Project Management Office (PMO) framework along with managing project budgets, schedules and quality They will also ensures projects risks, actions, issues and decisions are identified, mitigated and appropriately implemented and conduct regular stakeholder reviews with the change manager assigned to the project.

The Agile Program Manager will be responsible for formulating, organizing and monitoring a set of inter-connected IT projects across 3 Refresh Projects w/high touch Change Management Coordination

Windows 10 Upgrade

Hardware Refresh

AV Upgrade

Responsibilities

Conform with all company policies and procedures
Develop and manage product backlogs, user stories and acceptance across sprints
Drive and challenge timeboxed user stories, resource planning and activities (timeboxed to complete EPICs)
Assess program performance and aim to maximize Value on Investment
Responsible for release management for the program/product
Assist the Project Manager(s) with reviewing the user deployment insights and coordinating w/the Change Manager
Single point of contact to business stakeholders for program/product delivery in an agile environment
Escalates and helps resolve program-level impediments
Acts as Scrum Master when needed for one or more delivery teams
Participates in all Agile ceremonies and drives continuous improvement mindset across program related projects
Attend and participate in scheduled stand-ups
Drives resolution of higher scope/epic issues and dependencies across teams
Helps ensure value delivery, and drives continuous improvement
Protects team from outside distractions and context switching
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with program owners, business functions, IT, vendors, and other project stakeholders
Decide on SMART suitable strategies and objectives;
Pursue risks/dependencies and define escalation paths/process
Prepare reports program/product metrics, & report-out within Program (i.e. Enterprise Services’) existing rhythms, Coordinate scope, technical change, end-user change, interdependencies
Coordinate cross-project activities for those related to the “Refresh” scope of work

Experience and Education:

Required - Excellent communication skills

Required - Excellent problem-solving ability

Required - Certified Project Manager

Required - 5-7 years’ experience in a project or program management role (ie PM, or CSM) required

Required - 2-4 years of leadership experience required

Required - 2-4 years of vendor management experience required

Preferred - 5 + Years in IT including Windows 10, laptop hardware, and AV conference room technologies

Preferred - Certified Scrum Master

Preferred - Agile Certification

Cultural Expected Behaviors:

Heavy involvement with Asset IT including, North Dakota, Offshore, Copenhagen, and Kuala Lumpur
Work and align with Program and Change managers from other key Enterprise Service projects including the EHS initiative and network refresh
Document and make transparent cross dependencies, potential overlaps and maintain RAID log.
Accountable for the delivery of IT project goals.
Provide input to management on the direction of work, cost, time and from other disciplines or functional areas
Must be flexible to work in a changing/fast paced environment.