Posted By
Sayali Prabhudesai
Talent Acquisition Specialist at Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd
Last Login: 04 November 2019
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Roles and Responsibility :
Backlog Maintenance :
- Create and Manage Backlog
Backlog grooming :
- Manage/Update - sprint-backlog and project backlog regularly after client calls and demos
- Plans forward looking technology investigations (spikes / POC)
- After each sprint-demo work with dev team to estimate and re-estimate backlog
- Facilitate prioritization of backlog first time
- Facilitate prioritization of backlog during planning n+1 sprint with client
- Creating mock-ups/wire frames/Shtick images to illustrate or to detail for getting clarity from client; and for communicating task to dev team
- Use JIRA for all backlog (no use of Google spreadsheets)
Daily Stand-ups :
- Drive daily-stand-ups
- Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
- Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
- Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
- Consult Group Lead and raise your concerns
- Implement advise by GL
- Ensure that team is working towards completion of the sprint; each stand-up well done, will suggest if the velocity is enough to complete Sprint or no
- Maintain and Update the - information radiator board (with stickies)- for all sprints
Sprint Demos :
- Run sprint demos
- Calls must be marked on client and team's calendar; no ambiguity in when calls happen
- Every member must be present on calls atleast 2-mins before the scheduled time on calendar; be the first to join the call as moderator
- If you are unable to join, ensure that the session is recorded; if it cannot be recorded, ensure team has captured all feedback during the demo
Business Analysis :
- Understand the business of the client and the project
- This will enable you to question business needs that clients communicate
- Validate and record agreements in stories, acceptance criteria
- Create mock-ups/wireframes/Sktich annotations to illustrate or to detail -- for getting clarity from client; and for communicating task to dev team put these in stories in JIRA
Project Management :
- Plan - Do - Check - Act (Complete control on the project)
- Create Physical boards - information radiator board (with stickies)
- Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
- Organise the Sprint, get re-estimates done,
- Plan Sprint n+1 with client -- prepared stories for n+1 sprint to be taken up by dev team; work with QA in
- Learn to read JIRA Burndown Charts to know if the project is on time or is there likely to be a delay
- If there is likely to be a delay, speak to the Agile Coach / Group Lead to decide the nature of communication to be sent to client
- Release Planning - define release goals
Quality Assurance :
- Detail out stories with acceptance criteria
- Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria
- Work with QA in improving quality of acceptance criteria
- Work towards zero-defect sprints
- Defect triage - accept/reject
- Support the Dev+QA team in testing yourself
- Use JIRA for all these activities
- Drive testing strategy
- Deliver stories in piecemeal for testing throughout the sprint
- Validate technical architecture by asking relevant questions
Stakeholder Management :
- Send out weekly Status emails to internal and external clients -- must be on SM's calendar
- Red, Amber, Green status
- Budget consumption
- Key activities this week
- Pre-empt and document roadblocks that you/team foresee
- Raise/Flag issues to clients and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this
- Coach clients on agile/scrum, our model, align them on our practices, using Jira, etc
Engineering Practices :
- Drive towards Unit Testing
- Drive towards Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins; leads to a clear release and deployment strategy/plan
- Piecemeal UAT strategy
- Drive Intrinsic quality like Code, stories written, test scenarios written
- Continuously monitor and improve them. Question people on them
- Use Jira rigorously to track stories, defects, and manage it end to end.
People, Process and Tool Coach :
- Coach people to improve in their role
- Challenge and question people on the way they are working to make it better
Run sprint-retros :
- During retros listen for - cause behind the words; by asking probing questions
- Continuously strive to improve yourself
- Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
- Strategize which tool to use for what purposes.
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Posted By
Sayali Prabhudesai
Talent Acquisition Specialist at Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd
Last Login: 04 November 2019
1223
JOB VIEWS
47
APPLICATIONS
3
RECRUITER ACTIONS
Posted in
IT & Systems
Job Code
727757