Project Manager

Job description

• PMT Project Manager facilitates team progress to deliverables by helping teams focus on delivering value aligned to the daily, iteration and PI goals including scope, inter-dependencies and time commitments.
• Coaches the Dev Team on empowerment/self-organization and problem solving and lean agile practices.
• Work with Product Owners, Solution Architect, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment balancing team dynamics to priorities and scope.
• Unblocks impediments/escalating issues at the team/sprint level.
• Manage risks and dependencies.
• Work with team and RTE to escalate, track and unblock impediments and increase effectiveness.
• Shields the Development Team from external interference. Coordinates and support development team and hand off to release management team for deployments.
• Measures and monitors development metrics.
• Coach and monitor Scrum team agile practices.
• Facilitates scrum events and fosters team involvement in meetings.
• Ensure estimation from Feature (t-shirt size) to story level (story points).
• Ensure that scrum teams velocity are documented. Participate in SOS to update other SM and RTE to current deliverables, blockers/impediments and cross dependencies.
• Ensures scrum rules are followed and promotes agile values within the feature team. Guides team in establishing normalized estimates.
• Support Product Owner for backlog management and prioritization. Schedule and communicate the ceremony calendars for Iterations.
• Facilitates the Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement. Ensure right participation and facilitate all voices being heard.
• Participates in SOS and PI Planning and cross team COEs.
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the scrum team using Gitlab.
• Tracking the execution of features and capabilities keeping teams accountable for their timelines.
• Facilitating feature/capability and story estimation.
• Ensures Stories/Features contain the correct labels, epic rollup, approvals, documentation, agreed timelines and detail standards (scope, assumptions, acceptance criteria).
• Tracks iteration velocity/burndown.