Senior Portfolio Manager to Pilot a value stream to develop a good understanding of the prerequisites and lessons before deployment. - 006-2024

  • Vancouver
  • S.i. Systems
Our Public Sector Client is looking for a Senior Portfolio Manager to Pilot a value stream to develop a good understanding of the prerequisites and lessons before deployment. -Initial term is 6 months, with 4 x 6-month option periods that can be exercised at the client's requestMostly Remote, 1 day/month in Vancouver Office. Must be able to work 8-5 PST Must Have: 10+ years of experience with Portfolio Management: Portfolio roadmapping including portfolio management implementations, Current state analysis, recommendations to mature practices, Funding model: Implementations that support a SAFe delivery practice, including: Current state analysis and recommendations to mature the practice related to the Funding Model, Change management considerations. Capacity management: Support, Portfolio Management and SAFe delivery practice, including: Current state analysis and recommendations to mature the practice. The benefits and pitfalls of the level of detail at the Portfolio level versus the Release Train Engineer (RTE) level. Value Stream implementations, including: Organizational readiness and steps to become ready. The lessons learned in your previous implementations of Value Streams. Other key factors to success from your experience. Experience with improvements and clarifications to leverage the relationships of Product Managers, Product Owner, Business Engagement Services (BES) Managers and Analysts and the Release Train Engineers (RTEs). Pilot a value stream to develop a good understanding of the prerequisites and lessons before further deployment. It should include but is not limited to: Governance. Reporting/Measures. Change Management. Policy, Standards and Practices. Roles and Responsibilities. Deliverables: Current state review. Recommendations, based on our readiness, to mature our practices from two perspectives: Our overall practice (without a value stream framework). Our value stream pilot. A plan to execute on recommendations, identifying the deliverables and team requirements to accomplish them (e.g., Preferred Respondent). Implementation of the recommendations to mature the overall practice and specifically to launch, manage, monitor, measure and adjust based on learnings for: Our overall practice (without a value stream framework). Our Value Stream pilot. Value Stream pilot lessons learned. Recommendation for the next steps after the Value Stream Pilot based on our readiness and lessons learned.