What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager- Complex Program position at ScaleneWorks INC?
Job Title :: Project Manager- Complex Program
Location :: Phoenix, AZ
Job Type: contract
Skills:
Agile Champion; Incident Management; JIRA; Microsoft Office Suite; Microsoft OneDrive; Microsoft SharePoint; Project Management; Rally; Release Management
Responsibilities:
- Facilitates Agile events that help the Engineering team deliver value incrementally and iteratively; embeds Agile ways of working Drives the Engineering team"s contribution throughout the Program Increment (PI) through coaching and facilitating team level events Supports the team in achieving the PI objectives and improves the team long-term performance via coaching and encouraging continuous improvement in ways of working Supports and coaches Product Owners through backlog refinement, backlog readiness, definition of ready/done, coaching on writing user stories, supports decision-making and fosters continuous delivery of business value to end users.
- Supports coordination across Team of Teams (Agile Release Train (ART)/Release Train Engineer (RTE)).
- Raises and provides visibility around gaps, impediments, risks, and dependencies.
- Ensures impediments are visible and tracked through to resolution, escalating when necessary.
- Fosters practices for identifying, tracking, discussing and resolving cross - team dependencies within the team, taking ownership of a dependency on some occasions.
- Uses coaching and facilitation to enable team to use dependency management techniques to drive delivery Monitors progress and impact over time by tracking, identifying and improving delivery effectiveness metrics Cultivates, coaches, and communicates an Agile mindset, working within principles and values and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Improves the performance and maturity of the team (e.g., reaction time and solutioning) by encouraging innovation, relentless improvement, and adoption of best practices.
Leadership/Coaching:
- Coach teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets Live the Agile at Scale Values and Principles Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset.
- Inspires a culture of trust and leadership in others
- Encourage a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo.
- Drives collaboration and quality practices between Agile and product teams.
- Provides guidance to ensure the timely identification and prioritization of technical and business features Ensure compliance with SDLC standards across the team.
- Ensures data integrity for the teams within the Agile Management tools and compliance with SDLC audits Influences team without authority; engages Agile Coaches to drive change and influence beyond own influence and authority
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated understanding of Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development methods .
- SDLC Methodologies & Practice. Agile PM tools (Rally, JIRA).
- Strong coaching and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to work in complex product development environment
- Understanding of Agile at Scale or iterative development processes, including quality and testing best practices. A
- Adaptive Communication Agile Practices Industry and Company Knowledge Organizational Change Management Technical Acumen Technology Industry Trends