Agile Project Manager - Richmond Virginia

Company: Company Confidential
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Posted On: 11/03/2009

For this contract-to-hire position, you will be responsible to provide leadership and oversight on the planning, execution and completion of projects as assigned by our client. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members in order to deliver projects according to plan, within deadlines and within budget. You will act as the central point for all activities related to the project and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.

Role Duties / Responsibilities

• Leadership
  
  • Blend people into teams, creating strong morale and spirit in the team
    
  • Foster open dialogue and holds staff accountable for their work
    
  • Create a climate in which people want to do their best
    
  • Be committed to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
    
  • Establish and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect
    
  • Read situations quickly, and steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities
  
  
• Manage project human resources
  
  • Define the structure and processes for the team
    
  • Assign team roles and responsibilities
    
  • Provide feedback and coaching to team members
    
  • Resolve conflicts and support effective functioning of the team
    
  • Assess effective use of resources throughout the project
    
  • Assess effectiveness of team processes and communication
    
  • Manage resource allocation during product development, testing and release
    
  • Assess organization readiness for product release and make recommendations
  
  
• Define and Manage Project Scope
  
  • Evaluate project requirements
    
  • Define project goals and identify constraints
    
  • Negotiate project definition and scope with customers and deployment team
    
  • Develop and document scope of projects
    
  • Develop a work breakdown structure based on deliverable and project requirements
    
  • Create a scope change control process and management plan
    
  • Drive the development and validation of product specifications
    
  • Negotiate product features with customer/user and deployment team
    
  • Make trade-off decisions on product features, budget, and timelines
  
  
• Define and manage project plan and timeline
  
  • Develop detailed task list to the work package level
    
  • Identify the sequence of work and internal/external dependencies
    
  • Estimate the duration and resource requirements for each task to the work package level
    
  • Obtain input from the development team and customers to finalize plan
    
  • Create product development, testing, and delivery schedule and plan
    
  • Create identifying and documenting Gantt chart, network, and resource diagrams
    
  • Define a baseline for progress and performance measurement
    
  • Develop specific monitoring criteria and processes
    
  • Identify, track, and manage final and interim milestones by phase
    
  • Organize and conduct project phase reviews
    
  • Monitor, analyze, and evaluate processes and project completion
    
  • Continuously evaluate project plan and revise as necessary
  
  
• Develop and manage project budget
  
  • Develop cost estimates for proposal to customer based on input from appropriate groups
    
  • Present, justify, and negotiate cost with customer and technical team
    
  • Develop overall budget and budget detail for project
    
  • Identify budgets and costs by technical and functional groups
    
  • Develop and implement budget tracking processes and schedule
    
  • Identify budget issues and develop solutions
  
  
• Manage project communication process
  
  • Identify stakeholders and decision makers
    
  • Communicate and justify project plan to development team
    
  • Communicate relevant elements of the project plan to customers highlighting business issues
    
  • Communicate overall project goals and scope to customer and development team and obtain approval
    
  • Communicate budget issues and propose solutions to customer and technical team
    
  • Communicate project status, critical milestones, and critical issues to customer
    
  • Secure and sustain effective project sponsorship
    
  • Assess and mitigate risks associated with resistance, cultural impact, and process change
    
  • Communicate to and negotiate with customers any major changes to project plan
    
  • Communicate relevant information to team members in a timely manner
    
  • Communicate and justify release and deployment processes and plan to customers and technical team
    
  • Coordinate with customers/users, deployment processes and plan to customers and technical team
    
  • Document and report project status
    
  • Assess the effectiveness of the interaction and communication with customer

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