Project Manager
Must have exposure Scrum, Kanban and Agile Implementation.
The Project manager will act as a servant leader for the team, facilitating team meetings, fostering Agile behavior , helping remove impediments and maintaining the teams focus. His/Her roles and responsibilities would be
Agile Implementation:
- Implement agile practices for one team suggested by the coach / agile coe.
Product Roadmap:
- Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by the product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning.
Coaching & Facilitating:
- Identify the training programs for the team members.
- Coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities self organization etc.
Process Improvements:
- Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint.
- Filter the learning for the next sprint.
- Identify best practices and ensure that they are implemented.
- Document the learning / outcome of retrospection notes.
APO Management:
- Maintain oversight on the work of the project team under purview.
- Collate metrics to track progress and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders.
- Resolve any issues that may arise.
- Escalate critical issues to relevant stakeholders for resolution.
Estimation:
- Guide Agile team in coming up with a based on the requirements / features gathered.
- Guide the team to break the tasks and assign hours into tasks.
- Review estimates created by the team and provide feedback/ inputs.
Guidance:
- Guide the teams towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring cross term coordination.
- Facilitate daily stand up meetings sprint planning retrospective and sprint demos.
- Support the Product Owner at client to keep the backlog, communicate updates, communicate impediments and maintain release plan(s).
- Drive and support the team by removing impediments.
- Liaise between the team (inclusive of developers testers) and other practices to ensure focus on each release.
- Identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.
- Track metrics and leverage scrum artefacts (eg backlogs burn down charts etc) to communicate progress to customer sponsors.
- Remove interferences to ensure the team is working efficiently (for specific accounts / projects).
- Act as a bridge for distributed projects.
- Track the velocity.
- Work with the product owner to ensure that the release plan is revised post every sprint.
- Review estimates and task boards to ensure that the same is updated.
- Provide inputs for release planning activities.
- Review the backlog and provide necessary input.
Defect Management:
- At the end of each sprint track metrics (eg velocity code quality defect density across all phases code review metrics testing metrics) for each sprint report the same to the management.
- Review and share observations on bug status closure.
- Review the defect management plan and review the corrective steps as taken by the team.
- Facilitate the conversation so that the team identifies and takes corrective actions.
People Management:
- Engage with the team (the scrum team being managed by the role).
- Create training plans for the team.
- Set stretch targets and track performance against the same periodically.
Must Have Skills
Good to Have
- Agile Certification (CSM, PMI-ACP, Agile SAFE..etc)
- Technical background
Experience
- 5+ years in Project Manager role
- 8+ years in Information Technology
Product Owner
Experience with Retail solutions is mandatory.
Skill set require -: understand the existing business solution, and document feature and performance enhancements
Position Overview
The Product Owner role is key to documenting and defining the product features. In this role, the person will socialize the various aspects of the product with the Customer and the Technology staff, understand the existing business solution, and document feature and performance enhancements in detail for the benefit of the Technology team.
This position is based in Bengaluru and reports to the XXX.
Primary Responsibilities
- Have discussions with Customer on the various aspects of the Product and prioritize the features to align with Customers business goals.
- Define and document the product features.
- Capture the planned performance enhancements in detail.
- Document the desired Change Requirements.
- Create both internal and external product requirements documentation.
- Work with development team to define project scope and provide input into project plan.
- Enable documentation that supports: Development, Quality Assurance, Support, Audit etc.
- Create/review documentation around new or updated product functionality.
- Continually improve best practice standards and improve quality of deliverables.
Required Skills
- Experience with Retail solutions is mandatory.
- MBA from a reputable university preferred.
- Experience with bringing Enterprise SaaS and / or Web applications to market highly desired.
- Experience with user-centered design, use cases, and agile development methodology.
- High energy and motivation.
- Strong client relationship management and team orientation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional and offshore teams
Travel
Occasional travel to the US may be required.