Who are Valcon?
Valcon is a leading north-western European consulting, technology, and data company with offices across the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Croatia.
We combine premium consulting expertise with deep technology and data capabilities to help our clients transform their businesses and deliver real, measurable value. As one of Europe’s fastest-growing consultancies, we offer a dynamic and collaborative environment where you can make an impact while building your career.
Overview of Consulting Practice:
Valcon provides consulting support to help clients protect and increase their margins, optimise their operational performance and improve productivity. We work closely with clients to map their vision, define the programme to achieve it and deliver the programme successfully, using a blend of Valcon’s consulting, data and technology expertise.
From large-scale transformations to specific issues, Valcon can step in at any stage of the development journey. We adapt and flex our consulting, technology and data teams to provide direction, design and delivery to get the right results.
Our Consulting Practice has 5 capabilities:
* Transformation Delivery
* Project Delivery
* Organisation Change
* Operational Excellence
* Technology Transformation
Job Description
* Identify, design and establish Product Management Way of Working, in a collaborative way with business, engineering and required IT / 3rd party stakeholders
* Establish and Lead New Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
* Independently identify areas to establish new ARTs.
* Roll out, coach teams & business and implement PI Planning processes in new teams or departments.
* Lead Delivery for Agile Release Trains:
* Ensure alignment with Product Management strategic objectives and seamless execution of large programs.
* Management of ART level Dependencies, Risk and Impediments working with relevant stakeholders
* Ensure Continuous Flow of prioritised backlog Items supporting business triage and prioritisation activities:
* Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to resolve bottlenecks.
* Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning, through organization, leadership. Continuously s to improve PI planning sessions.
* Ensure readiness, alignment, and tracking of PI objectives across teams.
* Drive Continuous Improvements:
* Leverage stakeholder feedback and retrospectives to enhance ART performance.
* Champion initiatives to optimize processes and delivery outcomes.
* Data-Driven ART Delivery Management:
* Surface and visualize ART metrics such as predictability, PI readiness, and delivery performance.
* Create and maintain dashboards for load vs. capacity and dependency tracking.
* Support Capacity and Priority Planning:
* Partner with stakeholders to align priority features with available capacity.
* Ensure resource optimization across ARTs.
* Document Ways of Working:
* Establish and maintain clear documentation for ART processes, tools, and dashboards.
* Provide a single repository for ART metrics, reporting, and best practices.