Agile Program Manager

Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader built on more than 60 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence. With roots in the rich technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. Through the combination of industry leaders Broadcom, LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business and VMware, the company has the size, scope and engineering talent to lead the industry into the future.

As an Agile Program Manager (APM) you will support, facilitate and guide the software product development efforts of the organization or value stream for which you are responsible. You are the “glue” that ensures close collaboration between Product Management, Engineering and User Experience to deliver high value software products and solutions to the market.

• Agile Planning. The APM is responsible for defining the Agile Planning process for their value stream and ensuring that the process is followed. They schedule and facilitate the key planning meetings to determine upcoming software product development plans. Typically, Agile Planning is conducted on a quarterly basis.

• Quarterly Agile Planning Executive Reviews. Every quarter, the APM is responsible for organizing Executive Reviews for their organization or value stream. This gives MSD executive leadership a quarterly summary of execution results for the prior quarter, a summary of plans for the next quarter, and insights into future initiatives under consideration for the value stream.

• Agile Execution. The APM is responsible for tracking work item progress and completion that results in the timely and regular delivery of high value software products and solutions to the market while adhering to Agile principles. They schedule and facilitate the key execution status meetings to hold scrum teams accountable for their commitments and deliverables. They prepare and share reports to show progress and results of Agile Planning activities.
  
  They closely track Milestones which represent key, high value software product and solution deliverables and manage the risks, changes, dependencies and issues that may occur for these Milestones.

• Continuous Improvement. The APM is responsible for running Agile Retrospectives for the purpose of continuously improving Agile Project Management practices including Agile Planning and Execution. This includes ways to save time, create efficiency and eliminate waste, and may include finding ways to drive better behaviors or gather more meaningful insights and metrics.

• Agile Enablement. The APM is responsible for collaborating closely with the Agile Coach to promote Agile principles, practices and behaviors. This may involve coaching for the organization or value stream leadership team at the program level to mesh well with the Agile Coach at the team level.

• Organization or Value Stream Leadership Support. The APM is responsible for bringing the organization or value stream leadership team together regularly to address all issues that inhibit success by formulating action plans so that scrum teams are not impeded and the business is sustainable. This includes working with the “4-in-a-box” leadership team to provide reports, metrics and insights to drive business value and collaborate on special projects and initiatives specific to the value stream and division-wide.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration. The APM is responsible for bringing together on a regular cadence (usually monthly) the organization or value stream leadership team with cross‑functional, value stream partners including Support, Marketing, Operations, Education, Technical Information and Technical Consulting. The purpose of these meetings is to inform partners of the initiatives and plans of the value stream to deliver software products and solutions to the market so that they can integrate their activities in a meaningful way to ensure high customer satisfaction and business success.

• Product/Solution Deployment and Go‑to‑Market Activities. The APM is responsible for coordinating the…