Job title: Release Train ManagerJob Location: Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline: February 13, 2025Job SummaryThe main purpose of this role is to ensure overall alignment and effective delivery of the Programme Increment Planning (PI) objectives to ensure the successful delivery of Epics / Features / MVP in line with the set governance principles and business strategy.Key AccountabilitiesAccountability: Alignment of the agile release train (ART)Facilitate the design process of key deliverables and secure authorisation from primary stakeholders.Design, implement, and facilitate processes to ensure alignment on key deliverables and direction to encourage collaboration and agile delivery between all parties.Design and implement measures to help the teams on the ART note and track PI objectives, dependencies, impediments, and delivery progress.Facilitate the building of monitoring tools to monitor and track progress against objectives and delivery progress.Support the design, integration, and execution of end-to-end tactical enablement strategies across the ART and the supporting infrastructure to drive collaboration between all parties affected by the ART.Facilitate the building of integrated enablers to drive seamless delivery of PI objectives.Accountability: Optimisation of the Agile Release Train (ART) capabilitiesFacilitate the building and integration of capabilities to enable the execution of the agile train release capability.Facilitate the design and implementation of service standards for the full agile train release capability.Define, implement, and monitor service level measures for the primary and secondary stakeholders (product owners, management, and other stakeholders).Implement and drive capabilities and associated measures/analytics to optimise the ART enablement activities.Accountability: Optimisation of delivery of Agile Release Train eventsFacilitate or ensure the facilitation of ART-level synchronisation.Drive simplicity, agility, and innovation when conducting PI planning, inspecting, and adapting events on all ART practices and processes.Support the scrum masters in effectively coaching their teams on the effective execution of all other team events such as the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, and Review.Drive a culture of relentless improvement through facilitation of ART level inspect and adapt workshops.
Continuously challenge current ways of work to improve delivery, by incrementally improving quality, predictability, flow, and value.Accountability: Performance managementAnalyse and interpret data to produce detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies, and inconsistencies.Support the design of measures that will track daily, weekly, and monthly progress/performance against strategy and tactical plans.Ensure timely reporting on performance.Responsible for translating Management Information data and reports and tabling insights gained through studying such integrated business (function) reports to measure success and to realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.Accountability: Risk and complianceResponsible for the effective implementation of and adherence to the risk and control framework associated with service enablement.Drive the remediation of risk daily where control design or operational execution failed resulting in losses/breaches.Ensure that all compliance, regulatory, governance, or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholders.Accountability: FinanceDevelop, implement, and monitor a cycle of medium-term cost improvements.Compile a budget that aligns to delivery plans, monitor, and report on variances.Manage high-risk and problematic financial issues and contribute to the development of policy.Accountability: People and culture managementApply a collaborative leadership style, create an engaging, enabling, and productive work climate, and enable self-organised and customer-focused multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver on an outcomes-based performance basis.Implement people strategies that drive the optimum utilisation of human capability and capacity, clarifying requirements and expected outcomes.Achieve high performance through embedding formal development plans and informal coaching.Implement a robust knowledge management and agile learning system to support real-time learning and the constant communication of new ideas/learning amongst all colleagues.EducationBachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information TechnologyICT jobs
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