Hello from Delivery at the BBC
At the start of the year I took up a job as Head of Delivery for BBC Product Group as part of a new cross discipline leadership team led by our CPO Storm Fagan.
It’s my job to help the BBC get the most out of modern digital agile ways of working. Bringing more product thinking to how we work by focussing on outcomes and putting user needs at the heart of what we do.
Much of my role is helping teams collaborate effectively together at scale. Product Group is over 100 teams and we work with many more teams in editorial, marketing and across the BBC. We are responsible for products like iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, BBC News and Sport. We’ve got huge ambitions at the BBC to deliver more value to users through our digital products and services by taking a more user led iterative approach to what we do.
Creating our Delivery Profession
Over the last few months one of my priorities as Head of Delivery has been to create and build a new Delivery Profession at the BBC for agile delivery practitioners. I’m thrilled that this work is now complete and we have a dedicated Delivery Profession with a new career path framework, new roles and new job descriptions at the BBC.
When designing what we needed I was keen we also introduced an individual contributor track so that people could develop their careers here by deepening their skill and practice as well as through the traditional line management route.
We are building a thriving Community of Practice who meet weekly to network, share and learn together. More on that to come!
Our Vision
We recently wrote down our vision for Delivery Management at the BBC and we think this encapsulates pretty well who we are and what we’re here to to do:
“We inspire ourselves and our teams to raise the standard of agile collaborative delivery at the BBC.
We help make teams more effective and maximise their impact so we deliver value for users often, iteratively and repeatedly.
We focus on outcomes and making it happen.”
We’re looking for Delivery Managers
Delivery Managers play a huge part in our multi-disciplinary teams driving forward our change to user centred agile ways of working at the BBC. It is an exciting time to join us and we’ve got plenty of new roles in locations across Salford, London, Glasgow and Newcastle.
Current vacancies can be found on our careers hub page and we’ve got lots of opportunities across multiple locations including:
Associate Delivery Manager, Delivery Manager, Agile Coach, Senior Delivery Manager and Lead Delivery Manager.
Just type the role and location into the careers hub search.
Come and help us build the BBC.
