SummaryServe as the IT Department's key link with business clients/product owners and development teams on key projects utilizing agile, waterfall or hybrid project management methodologies. Ensures cross-functional project is successful by providing client support and ensures business objectives are being met while managing the project scope, duration and spend.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Facilitate the definition of project scope, level of effort, strategic alignment, stakeholders and business value
- Engage with the business and technology leads
- Facilitate project planning, development of user stories and estimates, sprint planning
- Facilitate and assist with business analysis and project design
- Establish project priorities, manage resources, budgets, timelines, deliverables, risks, issues, and all other project management functions
- Engage all project stakeholders at appropriate stages in each project as to ensure that project work is moving toward useful outcomes
- Provide meaningful progress and feedback reporting that will allow project stakeholders to make course corrections
- Assist with vendor resource management
- Foster an environment of successful delivery and continuous improvement
- Manage the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team in agile methodology
- Remove impediments faced by the scrum/project team
- Help product owners to keep the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint
- Facilitate group sessions such as retrospectives, backlog grooming, sprint planning and stand-ups
- Identify all affected stakeholders for a project
- Facilitate and/or participate in the analysis of client business processes and functional requirements and in the preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information
Secondary Duties and Responsibilities- Experience in complex IT projects
- Understanding of the SDLC, PMP, Agile and Scrum Methodologies
- Own the development of project plans using the associated project planning tools, which include work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, detailed tasks, and deliverables
- Provide status on project milestones, alerting client/ project manager of any potential delays
- Assist with the design and implementation of training programs for clients of new and enhanced application
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams
- Ability to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work
- Strong team building and collaboration skills
- Strong track record as a relationship builder with effective negotiation skills and proven interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to drive teams to resolve issues and deliver successfully
Education/Experience Requirements- PM in related field required and 7-10 years relevant work experience.
- Scrum Certification (Desired)
- PMP Certification (Desired)
- Experience in managing cross-functional and remote teams.
- Experience with MS Project.
- Experience with JIRA.
- Experience with Visio.
