Project Manager

Key Accountabilities Include

• Team/People
• Motivates and drives the technical teams to deliver high quality outcomes in line with estimates
• Initiates and fosters collaboration, communication, and team building
• Drives self-management from the team where impediments, issues, and improvements are identified and actioned by the team
• Fosters a team culture where risks and issues are managed at the lowest responsible level by communicating and collaborating with team members.
• Drives the team for efficiency through effective collaboration, and continuous refinement of team practices and working agreements.
• Works effectively with matrix managed teams, developing relationships with functional Leads to assist in the resolution of any resource issues
• Delivery
• Accounts for definition of the plan and resource demand required to deliver to plan, managing budget against plan
• Ensures process is defined for managing and tracking the proposed, and ultimately realised,  benefits of a delivery
• Ensures scrum teams deliver to plan and ensures immediate escalation of risks or blockers to the committed schedule along with proposed resolution/mitigation options (in line with agreed meeting cadence)
• Holds the team accountable on the adherence to the governance which includes some Scrum artefacts such as Daily Stand Up, huddles and Retrospective. 
• Ensures value of each event are met and utilises team retrospective to drive continuous improvement while actions are regularly monitored and reviewed
• Drive improvements in delivery quality and cadence
• Support the resolution of risks and issues
• Acts as a model for addressing conflict and barriers to collaboration
• Collaborates with Tech Lead to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with business objectives - near and long-term
• Attends daily Milestone Variance Reporting/ SOS meetings to report into the Tech Leads on any blockers and progress including burndown on each project
• Able to facilitate stakeholder meetings as necessary in the lifecycle of project delivery
• Best Practice
• Able to understand and articulate when waterfall practices are needed (e.g. design documentation) and able to manage integrated teams across a number of functions
• Responsible for ensuring that lessons learnt sessions are held and any outputs are fed into both the Scrum and Leadership teams
• Ensure consistent use of JIRA managing projects across a number of Scrum teams
• Responsible for ensuring consistent reporting of progress at both User Stories and Epic level through accurate Point allocation, and burn down throughout the Sprint
• Responsible for ensuring consistent reporting of progress in line with TMO reporting standards and financial process against plan
• Ensures outputs are of a quality sufficient to enable transition into support
• Motivates and drives the technical teams to deliver high quality outcomes in line with estimates
• Initiates and fosters collaboration, communication, and team building
• Drives self-management from the team where impediments, issues, and improvements are identified and actioned by the team
• Fosters a team culture where risks and issues are managed at the lowest responsible level by communicating and collaborating with team members.
• Drives the team for efficiency through effective collaboration, and continuous refinement of team practices and working agreements.
• Works effectively with matrix managed teams, developing relationships with functional Leads to assist in the resolution of any resource issues
• Accounts for definition of the plan and resource demand required to deliver to plan, managing budget against plan
• Ensures process is defined for managing and tracking the proposed, and ultimately realised,  benefits of a delivery
• Ensures scrum teams deliver to plan and ensures immediate escalation of risks or blockers to the committed schedule along with proposed resolution/mitigation options (in line with agreed meeting cadence)
• Holds the team accountable on the adherence to the governance which includes some Scrum artefacts such as Daily Stand Up, huddles and Retrospective. 
• Ensures value of each event are met and utilises team retrospective to drive continuous improvement while actions are regularly monitored and reviewed
• Drive improvements in delivery quality and cadence
• Support the resolution of risks and issues
• Acts as a model for addressing conflict and barriers to collaboration
• Collaborates with Tech Lead to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with business objectives - near and long-term
• Attends daily Milestone Variance Reporting/ SOS meetings to report into the Tech Leads on any blockers and progress including burndown on each project
• Able to facilitate stakeholder meetings as necessary in the lifecycle of project delivery
• Able to understand and articulate when waterfall practices are needed (e.g. design documentation) and able to manage integrated teams across a number of functions
• Responsible for ensuring that lessons learnt sessions are held and any outputs are fed into both the Scrum and Leadership teams
• Ensure consistent use of JIRA managing projects across a number of Scrum teams
• Responsible for ensuring consistent reporting of progress at both User Stories and Epic level through accurate Point allocation, and burn down throughout the Sprint
• Responsible for ensuring consistent reporting of progress in line with TMO reporting standards and financial process against plan
• Ensures outputs are of a quality sufficient to enable transition into support

Knowledge:

• Highly experienced and knowledgeable of the Scrum delivery methodologies
• Business knowledge to understand the relevant business objectives and issues

Skills:

• At least 5 years of Project Management experience working with distributed software development products and teams. 
• Highly knowledgeable on  common project management practices and proven working experience with MS Project
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations. 
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.  
• Hands-on management of Scrum projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics. 
• Strong ability to identify potential issues and dependencies early. 
• Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches and communication of risks.
• Experience with JIRA, JAMA and/or Confluence.
• Analytical thinker with creative problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Preference for PM certifications