Project Manager III

Duration: 6 months contract (W2 hourly without benefits) Job Description: · Responsible for facilitating all the scrum ceremonial meetings like the Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo/Review & retrospectives. · Helps the Product Owner and Scrum team create & maintain a healthy product backlog and helps the team in continuously managing & prioritizing the backlog. · Helps the team plan sprints based on team capacity, remove impediments that may hinder progress and continuously monitor sprint progress and assist the team in meeting the Sprint commitments. · Track team(s) velocity and publish metrics like velocity charts, sprint burn up/down charts and release burn up/down charts. · Create, setup and maintain the Scrum/Kanban JIRA/ADS boards for the team and ensure all work is tracked and updated regularly on the board. · Manage the overall scope of the project and negotiate with the PO/business on priority and what can be accomplished by the team. · Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions. · Build out a sprint calendar, release plan(s) and manage the overall timeline & delivery of the project. · Review project team allocations, project related POs/invoices & manage the project financials. Reporting & Communication: · Identify, track, manage, escalate and report on risks and issues. · Create & publish weekly Clarity project status reports & host Steering Committee meetings. · Negotiates and aligns the expectations with the capacity/ commitment and the team deliverable. · Keeps the RTE/ Program Manager and Portfolio lead informed of the milestones/ deliverables of the team · Escalates as needed to remove impediments for the team Experience: · Coaching & People Leadership · Establish an environment for the team to thrive and bring out the best in them. Motivate the team and build positive, lasting relationships with the team and other stakeholders. · Coach the team on Agile best practices and help the team continually improve by using retrospective meetings as learning and adjust/improve based on the findings/recommendations. · Accountable to follow ADUSA IT Agile processes for delivery of commitments · Provides feedback into the improvement of Agile practice Waterfall Project Execution · Responsible for end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project · Responsible for Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project · Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan · Works with the resource manager on the resource planning for the project · Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log · Escalates when required and holds people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues · Works with Project Accountants to get information for Financial Management on the project · Responsible for managing changes in project scope, objectives, requirements, and resources and adherence to change control policies · Collaborates with solution team to take the project through change control process when required · Collaborates with other project managers for dependencies and manages them with minimal impact to delivery · Manages and tracks interdependencies and interfaces with related projects · Collaborates with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices on the project · Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff · Holds delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan Reporting & Communication · Sets and manages stakeholder expectations · Responsible for project level governance and status reporting to right stakeholders at cadence · Keeps the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all the risks, issues and dependencies on the projects and seeks helps when necessary · Responsible for issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities including updating Clarity and retrospectives · Responsible for issuing communications for major changes (Before and after the change) that affect multiple applications and/or stores People Leadership · Set vision for the project, analysis and resolves issues. · Understand the teams perspectives and protects the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required. · Process, Tools, Standards, and Continuous Improvement · Accountable to follow ADUSA IT processes and ensures all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained · Coaches and mentors, the project team on the process and tools · Provide feedback and recommendations to improvement of ADUSA IT processes. About US Tech Solutions: US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com . US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Recruiter Details: Name: Sharon Email: sharonustechsolutions.com Internal Id: 24-25928