PDA - Scrum Master

c2c/1099

Job titleProject Manager/Scrum Master

Job typecontract remote

LocationHarrisburgPA

Primary responsibilities include:

• Managing and monitoring project execution ensuring that the project deliverables are completed on time within budget and according to the quality standards.
• Managing the relationship and expectations of the Project Sponsor Stakeholders and Senior Management throughout the project life cycle.
• Leading ongoing strategic conversations with Product Owners and various team members regarding the Product vision and backlog alignment.
• Developing and maintaining project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies and as needed by the projects.
• Developing high level and detailed project/sprint plans using project scheduling tools.
• Leading all project/sprint plan development activities including requirements identification of epics features storiesphases activities tasks deliverables milestones dependencies schedulesand assignment of resources.
• Providing leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones inline with the Delivery Centers hybrid agile framework.
• Preparing formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects including periodic status reports management dashboards and project metrics.
• Communicating and reporting the project status progress issues and risks to the Project Sponsor Stakeholders and Senior Management on a regular basis.
• Monitoring project quality schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.
• Facilitating risk and issue management for IT projects by promoting transparency and communication for identified risks.
• Facilitating deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals and tracking approval decisions and following up where need be to ensure approvals are achieved within established time frames.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and communicate when their decisions impact the quality schedule or budget of the project.
• Facilitating project meetings as needed ensuring that the standard scrum events such as daily stand ups retrospectives sprint planning and sprint reviews occur routinely.
• Working closely with Agency Business Relationship Managers Executive staff and Delivery Center management to ensure project success and provide project status.
• Using knowledge of agile practices and frameworks (in particular Scrum and Kanban) to support and serve the agile teams in the Delivery Center.
• Serving as Scrum Master for agile development teams coaching them on the approved framework and holding them accountable for successful delivery.
• Influencing and leading organizational change that positively impacts our agile teams.
• Ensuring the upkeep and accuracy of the project in the Commonwealths project portfolio management system (Daptiv) to include project status health (scope schedule budget) and timekeeping data.
• Providing and delivering project reportspresentations and statuses to all levels of management.
• Ensuring compliance with SDLC policies and procedures.
• Directing coordinating and tracking the activities of Delivery Center staff associated with the project.

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