HCL tech hiring forDisciplined Agile Delivrery (DAD) role

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Agile Delivery & Scrum Facilitation

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum framework, and best practices.
• Remove impediments and proactively address blockers impacting team productivity.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and self-organization.
• Monitor sprint progress and ensure committed deliverables are achieved.

Project Management

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, RAID logs, and status reports.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, resources, and dependencies.
• Track project performance using KPIs and Agile metrics.
• Ensure adherence to organizational governance, PMO standards, and compliance requirements.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Facilitate effective communication between technical and business teams.
• Present project updates, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership and steering committees.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and drive alignment across teams.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify project risks, dependencies, and constraints.
• Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Escalate critical issues proactively and drive resolution.
• Maintain project health and delivery predictability.

Agile Metrics & Reporting

• Track Velocity, Burndown Charts, Burnup Charts, Cycle Time, Lead Time, Sprint Predictability, and Team Capacity.
• Prepare project dashboards and executive reports.
• Analyze team performance trends and recommend process improvements.

Resource & Team Management

• Coordinate with offshore, onsite, and cross-functional teams.
• Support resource planning, onboarding, and capacity management.
• Enable collaboration among developers, QA teams, business analysts, and product owners.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive Agile maturity assessments and improvement initiatives.
• Implement DevOps and Agile best practices.
• Promote automation, quality engineering, and Lean principles across teams.

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Skill Requirements

Agile & Project Management

• Scrum Framework
• Kanban
• SAFe Agile
• Sprint Planning
• Backlog Management
• Release Planning
• Agile Estimation Techniques
• User Story Mapping
• Velocity Tracking
• Agile Metrics

Project Management Tools

• Jira
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Confluence
• Microsoft Project
• Smartsheet
• Trello
• ServiceNow

Reporting & Analytics

• Power BI
• Excel Dashboards
• KPI Tracking
• Risk Management
• Forecasting
• Capacity Planning

Collaboration Tools

• Microsoft Teams
• SharePoint
• Miro
• Visio