CRG · 1 day ago
Agile Project Manager
United States
Contract
Remote
Mid Level
$65/hr - $75/hr
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Madison di Zerega
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Responsibilities
Responsible for facilitating all the scrum ceremonial meetings like the Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo/Review & retrospectives.
Helps the Product Owner and Scrum team create & maintain a healthy product backlog and helps the team in continuously managing & prioritizing the backlog.
Helps the team plan sprints based on team capacity, remove impediments that may hinder progress and continuously monitor sprint progress and assist the team in meeting the Sprint commitments.
Track team(s) velocity and publish metrics like velocity charts, sprint burn up/down charts and release burn up/down charts.
Create, setup and maintain the Scrum/Kanban JIRA/ADS boards for the team and ensure all work is tracked and updated regularly on the board.
Manage the overall scope of the project and negotiate with the PO/business on priority and what can be accomplished by the team.
Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
Build out a sprint calendar, release plan(s) and manage the overall timeline & delivery of the project.
Review project team allocations, project related POs/invoices & manage the project financials.
Identify, track, manage, escalate and report on risks and issues.
Create & publish weekly Clarity project status reports & host Steering Committee meetings.
Negotiates and aligns the expectations with the capacity/ commitment and the team deliverables.
Keeps the RTE/ Program Manager and Portfolio lead informed of the milestones/ deliverables of the team.
Escalates as needed to remove impediments for the team.
Establish an environment for the team to thrive and bring out the best in them.
Motivate the team and build positive, lasting relationships with the team and other stakeholders.
Coach the team on Agile best practices and help the team continually improve by using retrospective meetings as learning and adjust/improve based on the findings/recommendations.
Accountable to follow Agile processes for delivery of commitments.
Provides feedback into the improvement of Agile practice.
Responsible for end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project.
Responsible for Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project.
Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan.
Works with the resource manager on the resource planning for the project.
Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log.
Escalates when required and holds people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues.
Works with Project Accountants to get information for Financial Management on the project.
Responsible for managing changes in project scope, objectives, requirements, and resources and adherence to change control policies.
Collaborates with solution team to take the project through change control process when required.
Collaborates with other project managers for dependencies and manages them with minimal impact to delivery.
Manages and tracks interdependencies and interfaces with related projects.
Collaborates with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices on the project.
Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff.
Holds delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan.
Sets and manages stakeholder expectations.
Responsible for project level governance and status reporting to right stakeholders at cadence.
Keeps the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all the risks, issues and dependencies on the projects and seeks helps when necessary.
Responsible for issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities including updating Clarity and retrospective.
Responsible for issuing communications for major changes (Before and after the change) that affect multiple applications and/or stores.
Set vision for the project, analysis and resolves issues.
Understand the teams’ perspectives and protect the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required.
Accountable to follow processes and ensures all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained.
Coaches and mentors, the project team on the process and tools.
Qualification
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Required
Experience as a Scrum Master and Project Manager
Experience in Infrastructure Cloud (Not applications in the cloud) and/or Hosting (Data Center, virtualization, Operating System Upgrades)
Ability to facilitate all the scrum ceremonial meetings like the Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo/Review & retrospectives
Experience in creating & maintaining a healthy product backlog
Ability to plan sprints based on team capacity and remove impediments
Experience in tracking team(s) velocity and publishing metrics like velocity charts, sprint burn up/down charts and release burn up/down charts
Experience in creating, setting up and maintaining Scrum/Kanban JIRA/ADS boards
Ability to manage the overall scope of the project and negotiate with the PO/business
Ability to protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions
Experience in building out a sprint calendar, release plan(s) and managing the overall timeline & delivery of the project
Experience in reviewing project team allocations, project related POs/invoices & managing project financials
Ability to identify, track, manage, escalate and report on risks and issues
Experience in creating & publishing weekly Clarity project status reports & hosting Steering Committee meetings
Ability to negotiate and align expectations with capacity/commitment and team deliverables
Ability to keep the RTE/Program Manager and Portfolio lead informed of milestones/deliverables
Ability to establish an environment for the team to thrive
Ability to motivate the team and build positive relationships with stakeholders
Experience in coaching the team on Agile best practices
Accountable to follow Agile processes for delivery of commitments
Experience in providing feedback into the improvement of Agile practice
Experience in end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project
Experience in Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project
Experience in developing a comprehensive project plan
Ability to work with the resource manager on resource planning for the project
Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log
Ability to escalate when required and hold people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues
Experience in collaborating with solution team to take the project through change control process
Experience in collaborating with other project managers for dependencies
Ability to manage and track interdependencies and interfaces with related projects
Experience in collaborating with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices
Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff
Ability to hold delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan
Ability to set and manage stakeholder expectations
Experience in project level governance and status reporting
Ability to keep the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all risks, issues and dependencies
Experience in issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities
Ability to issue communications for major changes that affect multiple applications and/or stores
Ability to set vision for the project, analyze and resolve issues
Ability to understand the teams’ perspectives and protect the team by negotiating with stakeholders
Accountable to follow processes and ensure all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained
Experience in coaching and mentoring the project team on the process and tools
Company
CRG
CRG Corporation is a national Executive Search firm and Staffing agency. For the past three decades, we have supported corporations across the U.S.
Founded in 1994
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jason S. Heller
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Partner
Dianne Gold
Managing Partner
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