What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Project Manager position at The Timberline Group?
Technical Project Managers chief responsibility is to manage the development sprints effectively and efficiently from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include mentoring your groups (interfacing with clients, running of daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets) and unblocking barriers to keep the teams moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the senior management, clients and development teams.
The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing company where you’ll have the opportunity guide the development of your Teams.
Responsibilities/Oversite:
Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
Presents high level project readouts for senior management and clients
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Manage other special projects as assigned
Other duties as needed
Skills and Qualifications
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized
The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing company where you’ll have the opportunity guide the development of your Teams.
Responsibilities/Oversite:
Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
Presents high level project readouts for senior management and clients
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Manage other special projects as assigned
Other duties as needed
Skills and Qualifications
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized