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Form of workApply Onsite: 'Mon-Thur' Category: Technology Innovative Technology; High Quality Products, Self-Empowerment Globally Responsible; Sustainable Products, Diversity of Thought Celebration of Sports; If You Have a Body, You are an Athlete Title: Agile Portfolio Manager Location: Beaverton, OR Duration: 1 Year Contract Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes.
It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination.
The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game. WHAT YOU WILL DO Operates as a team-based servant leader in service to the teams needs, ensuring the team is practicing Agile principles and partners with, coaches and supports business lead/Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.
Facilitates all of the Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos) and establishes, tracks and communicates agile metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress/burn down chart) to team, management and any impacted stakeholders. Facilitates alignment and assists business lead/Product Owner and Delivery Team with making appropriate commitments. Identifies, removes and/or escalates risks, roadblocks and cross team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the teams ability to deliver commitments.
Accountable for promoting continuous improvement by coaching the team to use metrics to identify and measure progress and participates with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and cross-scrum collaboration on delivery execution. Continuously learns new approaches to facilitation, agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics and helps the Team to focus on delivery of high quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence. WHAT YOU WILL HAVE In-depth understanding of Agile Principles and how they're applied in workplace culture, strong facilitation and coaching skills within teams and groups.
Experience resolving issues across teams, effective communication, team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant leadership skills. Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the team's ecosystem to help team overcome roadblocks. WHAT YOU WILL NEED Minimum 5 years relevant work experience supporting or leading a team, experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.
Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc. Relevant certification in the field preferred (Professional Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner, Agile Scrum Master, Scrum Master Certified, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification). Published on 02 Jan 2024, 8:24 PM
