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Leeds, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Halifax, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Proficiently organising and facilitating daily scrums, elaboration sessions, sprint reviews and planning, retrospectives, and release/deployment planning.Working closely with Product Owners on sprint goals and backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant and prioritised and ensuring that acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are sized and ready for a sprint.I am effectively tracking Development team progress using Jira and Confluence dashboards reports (burn down, velocity, and release forecasting charts).Promoting continuous improvement and helping the development team with scrum framework ways of working.Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.Proactively collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across the organisation.Identify and propose changes to ways of working and tools to drive innovation.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsible for an array of operational duties, ensuring that quality standards are met as defined by the relevant organisational strategy and quality criteria in the NHS Digital’s standard operating model for programme and project management.Prioritise tasks, determine dependencies, estimate future requirements and highlight any problems, including risks and issues to the team.Responsibility for Communication and RelationshipsSupports the Project Manager to deliver projects, working closely with the project team, suppliers and users of facilities and systems associated with these projects. This includes acting as first point of contact for all programme/project communications, e.g. drafting project communications such as weekly updates to the programme/project team, and providing cascade of relevant project, policy and strategic information across the team as directed by the project leadWorks with key external and internal stakeholders to achieve required outcomes, i.e. reporting deadlines, communication channels, negotiating and influencing where required to achieve to optimum working approach for the programme/projectWorks with members of the team and stakeholders to investigate the causes of any discrepancies in the project plan or delivery targets, highlighting areas for further action and managing subsequent change activities through the agreed project change processAssists with faciliation at events, including Lunch & Learns and project presentation, e.g. event management for programme/project events, including national stakeholder meetingsWorks closely with multiple internal and external key stakeholders, effectively collating and providing information, providing programme or project support guidance and challenging failre to meet deadlines. Takes a key role in identifying stakeholders and building relationships to assist project communication and reporting