- Tracks and communicates project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, stakeholders, and management.
- Establishes an environment where the teams can be effective and helps removing obstacles.
- Protects the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
- Ensures a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.
- Tracks and reports team velocity and other project metrics.
- Promotes continuous improvement and helps teams to increase productivity.
- Helps Product Owner and team with Product backlog management.
- Ensures the teams are practicing core Agile principles.
- Adheres to VDSS and VITA project management practices as defined.
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile project management principles and practices.
- Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations
- Ability to set clear performance standards and hold team members accountable, while keeping the team engaged and on track.
- Ability to help Product Owners to create and prioritize Product Backlog.
- Strong analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.
- Lead project teams to implement and complete assigned IT projects as approved by the ITIC
- Serve as the primary project liaison between VDSS, suppliers, and other external organizations.
- Ensure the Suppliers and external organizations have the information needed to perform the scope of services
- Escalate any issues that compromise the successful and timely completion of the project
- Direct the work and required tasks of the project
- Monitor and control project scope and schedule
- Manage scope change and risk/issue management for the project
- Ensure that the project is clearly defined, efficiently tracked, and consistently communicated
- Communicate project status to the ITIC and all stakeholders
- Ensure that the business and stakeholder requirements and objectives are met by the project deliverables
The Project Manager will use established PMO templates, that include the following:
- Balanced Scorecard
- Project Requests
- Project Charters
- Project Plans
- Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
- Sprint Planning Guidelines
- Communications Plans
- Risk Plans
- Resource Allocation Plans
- Critical Issues Reports (using agency-provided Jira tools)
- Procurement Management Plans
- Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) plans
- Project Change Requests
- Stakeholder Management Plans
- Status Reports
- Testing Plans and Test Acceptance Criteria
- Project closeout documentation