Senior Iteration Manager - San Francisco, CA -6 month Contract

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From: Yogesh kapadne 
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:18 PM
Subject: Requirement for Senior - Iteration Manager with our client in San Francisco, CA
To: d.b.greenfield@gmail.com


Hello,           
My name is Yogesh Kapadne and I'm a recruiter at Intelliswift, a global staffing and IT consulting company. We are constantly on the lookout for professionals to fulfill the staffing needs of our clients and we currently have a job opening that may interest you. Below is a summary of the position.
 
Title: Senior - Iteration Manager 
Location: San Francisco, CA
Duration: 6 Months Contract 
 
JOB DESCRIPTION:  

• Provides coaching on Agile values and practices while emphasizing continuous improvement
• Enables individual project teams to share their learning with the organization
• Encourages collaboration and proactively seeks opportunities to improve collaboration
• Tracks and ensures visibility of historical team metrics and progress of the iteration and release
• Emphasizes the need for incremental releases, iterative work and prioritization by value and risk
• Assists with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information, especially relative to historical team metrics, progress towards iteration and release goals, and team capacity
• Partners with project leads to ensure the team is producing a solution that meets established standards, procedures and practices
• Collaborates with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans
• Instills a sense of urgency reflecting the goals for the current iteration, upcoming release, and project vision, while passionately emphasizing the importance of meeting these goals
• Optimizes, increases and sustains throughput; ensuring prioritization of work by value and risk
• Is collaborative in driving decisions and team behavior, guarding against making decisions and assignments for the team and instead creates and environment where teams have the context needed to make the best decision
• Ensures iteration-based meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved and their cadence is maintained
• Assists team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking
• Proactively identifies and removes blockers, limits work in progress and prevents distractions
• Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Identifies, creates and defends opportunities for expediting feedback throughout the iteration
• Participates proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices

 Qualifications

• Must have 6+ years IT experience
• Must have 1+ years of hands-on ScrumMaster experience utilizing Agile delivery framework
• Hands-on experience in the proactive, passionate improvement of software development process and practices to optimize business value delivery
• Preferred to be a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent
• Preferred to have experience with distributed development teams which span multiple geographies, time zones and cultures
• Preferred to have direct experience in a Web, Java, XML, RDBMS development environment
• Must have experience overseeing project teams with at least 10 team members
• Must have exceptional written and verbal communication and time management skills
• Must be self-motivated, organized, self-confident and self-directing with a proven ability to identify priorities and mobilize initiatives in an orderly fashion to achieve desired results with minimal supervision
• Must be effective and efficient in identifying and proposing creative, innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges
• Must possess excellent situational awareness and an ability to remain calm under pressure and be cognizant of how you are perceived
• Must have hands-on experience and a thorough understanding of agile soft

If you believe you're qualified for this position and are currently in the job market or interested in making a change, please give me a call as soon as possible at 510 870 8511. 
Thanks & Regards,
Yogesh Kapadne
Intelliswift Software, Inc.
2201 Walnut Avenue
Fremont, CA – 94538
Phone: 510 870 8511
Fax : 510 456 9656
Email: yogesh.kapadne@intelliswift.com
www.intelliswift.com