Overview

Position Title: Agile Project Manager

Company: ITV

Location: Cambridge, UK

Job Description:

You’ll be managing one of our newly formed engineering scrums, working within a larger programme of work to deliver a new product.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead sprint planning and estimation in line with the overall project ways of working, plan and sprint goals
  • Be accountable for scrum effectiveness focussing on high-value delivery increments that meet the Definition of Done, maintaining appropriate standards and resolving impediments to progress
  • Work with the wider cross-functional team to ensure requirements and design outputs are sufficient for development work to be completed in the designated increment, and are described in the Definition of Ready.
  • Day-to-day management of resources within your scrum, ensuring good utilisation, resolution of impediments and managing any performance issues.
  • Prepare, lead and follow up ceremonies including daily standup and retros.
  • Ensure that all developers are aware of and working in line with the agreed coding standards.
  • Ensure there is a robust process around test planning, execution, status reporting and defect management.
  • Manage scrum velocity and report at the end of each sprint.
  • Ensure that actual figures are logged against estimates to allow us to improve future estimates.
  • Actively supporting the achievement of plan goals through their execution of the sprint to sprint activity and contributing to reforesting / reshaping the high-level plan, as necessary.
  • Report status to the Delivery Manager to enable ongoing management of the high-level plan.
  • Monitor Jira to ensure that tickets are kept up-to-date and that good discipline is observed in updating the tickets/boards, taking steps to address any short-fall in this area.
  • Foster strong working relationships with peers across ITV and with our technology partners & 3rd parties based on clear, honest and supportive communication.
  • Early and clear communication to the Delivery Manager of any blockers / issues or risks that threaten our ability to deliver on time and subsequent management of these items until resolved.
  • Identify and manage dependencies, both inbound and outbound, to ensure that impacted parties are clear what needs to be delivered by when and then drive progress until delivered.
  • Ensure all documentation is produced in a timely manner, is kept up to date

Requirements:

  • Has experience as a skilled agile practitioner, understands that agile is not the only way and has experience of other methodologies and how agile fits into those.
  • Has experience using the Scrum methodology where this is scaled beyond one team (such as Safe, LeSS)
  • Has worked on agile Digital software development projects, including both front-end and back-end
  • Has worked in a multi-disciplinary team and has managed 3rd party delivery before
  • Has extensive experience managing development teams directly (i.e. not worked exclusively on packaged business systems implementation)

About ITV

It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.