Cisco Systems Work Values

Daily Duties at Cisco Systems:

• Drive the Commercial Open Source Initiative (COSI) in the business unit evaluating all third parties licensing to ensure compliancy with Cisco Policy for Use or recommend alternative solutions. • Lead cross-functional development teams in order to manage interdependencies, shared resources, synchronize schedules to deliver customer solutions, including third party product integration for program continuity, and managed threats and. • Managed stakeholder expectations to ensure a “Go” vote at various CPDM Go/No-Go phase reviews: (concept, execute, delivery, and first customer readiness). • Analyze product requirement documentation including engineering specifications to create realistic project deliverables in order to establish realistic budgets, understand both positive and negative risk and create mitigation plans, and create realistic timelines that are achievable. • Maintain Project Dashboards, providing project status, milestone adherence, resource health, velocity, burn down and up, backlogs, and user stories. • Managed the business unit’s adoption of Agile methodology to speed solutions to market to meet customer demands; organize various trainings for SCRUM Masters, Product Owners, developers, and executives. • Manage multi-million dollar projects across various time zones.

What they like about Cisco Systems:

You highly value a work environment built on a formal structure, rules, and regulations. You do not enjoy the unpredictability of shifting priorities and deadlines that upset your routine. You require and enjoy direction, input and accountability as part of your work environment. You have a strong need to participate in making key decisions and feel left out if your superiors or co-workers do not seek your input when making decisions. You thrive on providing good customer service to both internal or external customers, and doing so makes you feel good.

Tags

Program Management, Risk Management, PMP, SDLC, Multi tasking, Budgeting, Agile, SCRUM, Project Management, SaaS, IaaS, Cloud

Skills

P&L responsibilities, Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Sales Support, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership , Risk management

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Cisco Systems: