Agile Project Manager

Description

RESPONSIBILITIESWell organized and able to manage multiple technical, business, test and training teams. Responsible for managing project timelines, resources, quality and risk; including, milestone planning and reporting, project budget tracking, budget analysis, project staffing, status reporting, change requests, and other basic project administration activities. Requirements gathering, guiding internal customers through the project life cycle, and supporting golive and postimplementation support. Requires a strong blend of Project Management business analysis and technical experience and the ability to work well in a team environment, as well as skills to facilitate communication, team focus, influence, service oriented, problem solving, analytic thinking, planning, personal development and decisiveness. Will communicate individual roles and project/program expectations for both internal and external teams, develop detailed project plans and schedules, provide work direction and leadership to assigned projects or programs including sub projects and at times, individual project members; including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. Monitors and audits project or program milestones and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule and identifies ways to resolve schedule issuesProvides required project status reporting, assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives REQUIRED SKILLSExperience organizing meetings, maintaining project plans, budgets and status reports; providing feedback on standards and approaches to the work.Experience with Agile and other structured methodologies (i.e., Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, RUP, or PMI).Experience with Project Management tools, including MS Project, JIRA, Crucible, Fisheye, and SharePoint.Demonstrated ability to enlist support across functional teams within a matrix organization to obtain results.Working knowledge of Project Management Standards common in project management methodology.Expertise in using MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPointDemonstrated experience using analytical and creative problemsolving skills HIGHLY DESIREDTrack record of driving the delivery of projects on timeAbility to work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of workExperience with software enduser change management strategy and executionStrong risks and business impact analysis and reporting skillsDemonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution