RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead responsibilities:
· Run the daily stand up for the dev teams
· Maintain the sprint board
· Ensure all dev work is captured in stories, bug and sub-tasks
· Ensure all stories have accurate points and all tasks have up-to-date effort in hours
· Help team overcome technical hurdles and connect team members with any relevant parties on or outside the team
· Careful code review of all developer code during the pull request process, make suggestions for improvement in the PRs
· Individual meetings with developers for coaching and mentoring
· Ensure testing tasks are added where needed
· Work with external party to maintain healthy build pipelines for all platforms
Sprint planning and sprint operations
· Entry of team capacity
· Maintain calculation of team and individual member velocity
· Drive the story estimation process
· Help the team task out each story with effort estimates
· Help the team break stories up into front end and back end (hub) stories
· Meet with product owner/BA team on a regular basis
· Meet with UI/UX design team on a regular basis
· Ensure features being built line up with UI/UX designs and business expectations
· Communicate risks or potential to miss commitments to product owner
Release and Feature Planning for the year ahead
· Help define release feature scope for year in advance
· Help estimate and define stories and points for planned features
· Make high level commitments based on team capacity and velocity
Release and Deployment
· Identify and tag stories and bugs for next release, ensure they line up with expectations
· Define and communicate release notes
· Communicate if any items cannot be delivered
· Work with developers and QA team to identify level of code changes and corresponding level of regression testing that is needed
· Help QA identify platforms that need to be tested and in what order