Agile Business Analysis Practice Lead for CPP

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Who Speclialist Work With The Programme has an existing architecture function in which the lead business analyst is part of the wider business architecture practice. Current development activities have teams in place. Each existing team comprises: a Product Owner, a Delivery Manager, a Technical Lead, a Business Analyst, a User Researcher, a UX/HTML Designer, one or more front end, back end or full stack developers and a QA specialist. It is expected that the successful provider will primarily provide and coordinate community of practice activities with business analysts and provide other business analysis support. What Specialists Work On Provision of leadership, supervision, coaching and support of the Programmes business analysis team. Where the Work Takes Place Primarily Southern House, Wellesley Grove Croydon CR9 1WW and Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 9HS (the "Base locations”, although some visits to other locations and UK Travel may be required.) Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements The Service is being delivered against the GDS Service Manual. SoW/Work-Orders will be issued to define the development outcomes of each project phase and typically span 3-6 months. The specialist will initially be required to work onsite at the base location working a (5) day week. For works performed at a non-Base location and outside London (outside of the M25), all reasonable travel and expenses costs shall be met in accordance with the rates set out in the MoJ travel and subsistence policy. All expenses will require prior approval from HMCTS. Work Location Primarily Southern House, Wellesley Grove Croydon CR9 1WW and Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 9HS (the "Base locations”, although some visits to other locations and UK Travel may be required.) Security Clearance Baseline Personnel Security Check (BPSS) which must be dated within three months of the start date. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-baseline-personnel-security-standard for further guidance. Additional T&Cs Any expenses shall be submitted in line with the Ministry of Justice Standard Travel and Subsistence policy. Suppliers shall provide transparency to the Buyer on the rates paid to resources and any third parties in the supply chain. Skills & Experience Demonstrable experience of building and leading a community of practice for business analysis to support programme delivery. 6% Demonstrable experience of identifying and managing features in a programme backlog. 6% Demonstrable expert agile knowledge of business analysis techniques&tools, for example:modelling current and desired future scenarios, business functions and processes, logic and rules, information flows and data structures(6%) Demonstrable experience in developing and maintaining strategic analysis outputs at a programme level. 4% Demonstrable expertise in providing business analysis capability within a multi-functional agile team working in a structured agile approach to product development, and developing programme standards in this area(4%) Demonstrable expertise in using Jira to producing&managing a backlog of clearly defined user stories, NFRs&acceptance criteria using BDD through all stages of agile development&developing programme standards in this area(4%) Demonstrable experience of playing a leading role in discovery/inception and ensuring effective collaboration between business experts, user researchers, user experience designers and technical team members. 4% Demonstrable experience of working in a large scale agile programme and taking a leading role in developing and proposing cross-programme business analysis approaches suitable for this environment.5 % Demonstrable experience of agile business analysis working with UR/UX, testing and business architecture communities. 3% Demonstrable experience of product management, working with and coaching product owners. 4% Proven experience of working with Domain Driven Design in respect to business analysis. 4% Proven experience in supporting teams to manage GDS assessments and working with the Digital by Default service standard.3% Nice to Haves Demonstrable experience of investigating operational issues, problems and new opportunities, and seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automation or new or changed processes/procedures, organisation and equipment. 3% Significant experience of delivery of business transformation enabled by digital services. 4% No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Explain the approach for working with multi-vendor teams across multiple projects at different locations.(5%) Explain how you will ensure collaboration at all levels of the project and programme delivery between users, team members, and management. Give examples of where you've taken this approach.(3%) Explain how you would maintain a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes; provide examples.(2%) Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 10% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range target rate is circa £900 per day.