Imagine New Horizons
Agile Project Manager will also work across the portfolio with Product Managers, functional stakeholders and management to ensure standardized processes are established across the software development lifecycle and release management to drive the development of high quality, high value software products within an Agile environment.
What will your job be?
Must be able to clearly communicate with the team. Active participant in discussions. Can successfully lead discussions when expected to do so Has excellent written skills.
Must be able to clearly demonstrate command and control of meetings (as appropriate) Has total respect and confidence from the team. Comfortable communicating at all levels and is effective at doing so.
Full accountability for release planning: management of project timelines, scope and milestones for one or more projects. Manage the complete Software Development Lifecycle.
Ensures that the Product Team delivers against schedule, scope, resource/cost, and quality targets using the Agile/Scrum SDLC.
Responsible for product release coordination. Ensures smooth collaboration among extended team members for each product release including Engineering, Product, Testing, Tech. Content Strategy, Knowledge Mgmt, Global Compliance, Service Delivery, Sales, Marketing, Reporting, and the Executives team.
The Challenges ahead
Perform Scrum Master functions: schedules and leads the release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming and daily scrum activities.
Ensure the product team has capacity to execute within each sprint. APM will resolve capacity and resource issues in collaboration with the Solution Lead(s).
Leads product teams in adopting Agile / Scrum methodology via training and coaching. APM will encourage self-organized teams, but is accountable for Agile usage.
Whenever possible, APM will work on-site, rather than working remotely (e.g., from home),at his/her supervisor s discretion. Exception: APM is designated a remote worker .
Support process improvement initiatives within the Technology organization
Your key success factors
Minimum of 5 years of software development and/or 3 years of project management experience is required
Minimum of 2 years of project management experience in Mobile apps development.
Previous project experience in managing technology intense application projects.
Background in applying rigorous project management practices preferred
A history of successfully delivering commercial software products on-time, on-budget with the agreed upon scope preferred
Experience with implementing large scale systems a plus
Agile, SCRUM
PMI certification (for example, PMP or PMI ACP, or PRINCE 2) a plus
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred
Background in a regulated environment a plus
Experience Working Within An Agile/Scrum SDLC Preferred..