Please describe your experience managing agile projects.

Remember to provide a sense of scale for the agile efforts you were responsible for. Microsoft group program managers have responsibility for several projects at a time, and interviewers value candidates that have experience coordinating complex initiatives in a scaled agile environment.

"My agile leadership experience began when I was a senior engineer and served as a scrum master for my team. We were a relatively small team that consisted of a scrum master, a product owner, four engineers, and a tester. I worked directly with a program manager and regularly reported our team's progress to the PMO. I managed our team's burndown charts, removed roadblocks, and gave guidance as needed. I ensured we were working in the right way, and I partnered closely with our product owner to ensure we were focused on the right work.

That role inspired me to transition into technical program management. I was promoted into a role in which I was responsible for several scrum teams and kanban teams at once. We built data integration solutions for medical scheduling and billing SaaS solutions. The solution development teams used scrum, and our support and maintenance teams followed kanban.

I bridged these teams together and held regular meetings to coordinate work, discuss progress, handle conflicts and develop release strategies. We were not a SAFe organization, but I served in a capacity similar to a release train engineer in a scaled agile framework environment."