What is the role of the Agile Delivery Manager? - Episode 41

Multiple teams may work on an agile product, platform, or program - so it begs the question of how teams self-organize, solve problems, deliver reliable releases, and develop standards.

Enter the role of Agile Delivery Manager - the CTO for multiple agile teams coordinating their releases, developing microservices, and delivering world-class technologies.

In this episode, Isaac Sacolick shares the primary responsibilities of the Agile Delivery Manager and contrasts them with the roles of Product Managers and Program Managers.

[TKyi-eczs]

I have been working as Delivery Manager role for 1 month now . Steep learn curve coz nature of job scope is extensive, and different from typical traditional project manager role.

[sabbie]

Now that is a lot of responsibility. Every company I have worked for has different job role expectations and use Agile disciplines differently

[craziewill]

Delivery Manager is more of a made-up title that expecting this individual to dip their hand into multiple roles of Product Owner and Scrum Masters..

Scrum Teams are responsible for quality, delivery, addressing tech debt, involved in Spikes, experiments, etc
Scrum Masters are responsible for building self-organising / self-managed teams, produce sustainable pace over time, remove impediments..
Product Owners are responsible for stories, prioritization, etc..

The only thing missing responsibility from a traditional Scrum Team is the duty for assigning and allocating resources, which is a Project Manager would do..


So this Agile Delivery Manager role is somewhat double dipping into Waterfall and Agile

[priyankashrivastava]

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[manuelzoro]

I don't really agree... a Delivery Manager shall have a mindset of "preserve" and ensure stability for users, while PO shall have a strong focus on "change" to bring the product to the next level. These two will need to balance the continuous development. The shall act much more different than shown in the vid - my opinion