Business Analyst, Lean Portfolio Management

About this role

Description


The Senior Associate Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Analyst will assist and support various assignments related to our Product Transformation efforts. Assignments may span across multiple workstreams of the transformation including but not limited to product strategy development, agile planning and execution, governance processes, agile playbook content creation, and agile management tool adotpion. Will be an advocate for the product transformation mindset, practices, and processes.


Accountabilities for an assigned portfolio


Builds knowledge and is a champion of product and agile principles, practices, and competencies.


Supports portfolio leaders in all necessary aspects of governance including financial, benefit realization measures, and general reporting.


Supports portfolio leaders in creation of objectives and key results, product roadmaps, and solution roadmaps all aligned to the strategy.


Builds content for and co-facilitates tailored workshops to advance product maturity


Provides support for the monthly portfolio governance reviews to ensure alignment across business and IT, surface impediments, removes blockers.


Participates in and may drive aspects related to transforming our financial reporting practices as we shift from project accounting to product model funding and budgeting concepts.


Contributes to enhancements and adoption of agile work management tools (i.e. AzureDevOps, TargetProcess, ApptioOne, SharePoint, templates, excel workbooks)


May play the role of scrum master or product owner on a dedicated agile team


Independently own/drive special projects (i.e. customer journey mapping)


Knowledge and Requirements


Proficient written and verbal communication skills


Possesses working knowledge and practical application of Agile methodologies


Possesses working knowledge of software development life cycles


Ability to build and maintain collaborative rel...