Leigha Castro, has been at Jet2 for 2 years and is an Agile Delivery Lead within E-Commerce, part of Application Development. Here she shares what a typical day looks like for her in her role.

What is the role of an Agile Delivery Lead?

My role encompasses several things, but the most important part is helping to facilitate the teams in an agile way of working. Our goal is to produce working software, putting our customer’s first, by delivering the best possible customer experience.

I work with two teams who are using the Scrum framework: a Web team & a booking platform team. Each team have their specific areas of focus, one works on the front end and the other works on the backend changes.  

What does a typical day look like for you?

For me, each day is varied but start similarly. I initially log on and catch up with any emails. Following this I will work with my team leads to ensure that all team members have everything they need. I will review my meetings for the day to ensure I have everything ready and prepped.

At the same time each day we have our team stand-ups where we discuss the work in progress. These meetings are used to coordinate the work, escalate any issues, or use the time to reprioritise any work in progress.

How does the work get done?

This is varied depending on where in the sprint the team are. As a team we will have multiple different sessions throughout the sprint. This includes:

Refinement; working with the Business Analysts to review up coming work and get these into a ready Sprint state.

We also have a Sprint Retrospective, where I will facilitate the session, helping the teams to focus on how we can continue to inspect, adapt and improve our processes and ways of working.

We also hold a Sprint Review, where the team will showcase the work which has been completed during the sprint. For this, I will prepare slides to talk through the Sprint Goal, whether we have achieved this, any challenges during the Sprint, the upcoming work for the team, key release dates and significant team metrics.

What is the key purpose of an Agile Delivery Lead?

The key purpose of my role is to ultimately ensure that the teams are delivering the most valuable business items and seeing this through from initial requirements through to live. This means throughout my day I am working closely with the Delivery Managers, Product Owners & Business Analysts to review roadmaps, backlogs and releases to achieve this. 

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