Agile Delivery manager at PwC South Africa

About the job

An Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for the product delivery team’s performance and for the effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services. An Agile Delivery Manager enables their team to succeed by helping the team to self organise, creating the right environment for success, and creating a culture of learning and transparency.

• Works closely with Product Managers to ensure the product vision is delivered
• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
• Identify obstacles and blockers and help the team to overcome them
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
• Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies as part of a more traditional Scrum Master role
• Participate in Agile (and other) communities of practise and contribute meaningfully to lateral knowledge sharing and upskilling on Lean and Agile principles
• Perform Project Management activities as required
• Act as an Agile Coach for the team, and drives Agile and Lean practises
• Responsible for team resource management and capacity planning (workforce planning), in collaboration with other Agile Delivery Managers and Product Managers

Minimum Qualifications:

• BCom Degree
• Project Management Qualifications
• Lean / Agile Qualifications

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years in Project / Agile Delivery Management role

Key knowledge and Skills:

• Agile & Lean Practises
• Project Management knowledge
• Planning
• Team Dynamics and Collaboration
• Performance Focus
• Leadership and team motivation
• Negotiation skills