ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Essential Accountability Percent of Time
Chief promise keeper for projects keeping an end to end perspective for the teams.
Ultimately responsible for delivery of projects by driving commitments to
completion on time, on budget, and on quality. 20%
Champion agile methodologies throughout the development process and adherence to
the DPG SDLC - this will include being Scrummaster to one or more agile or site
reliability teams, and/or scrum of scrums across multiple teams. 20%
Ensures projects do not start without proper initiation according to the DPG SDLC
including roadmap prioritization, documented charter, and dependency
identification. Clearly understand how projects fit into the programs and platform
they are a part of. 10%
Own and manage communication plan across projects, which may span multiple
internal and external teams. Track key decisions in decision log to ensure visibility
and traceability to key decisions made. Proactively removes impediments to ensure
successful delivery of team commitments. Owns and drives issue resolution and risk
mitigation. 15%
Responsible for coordinating the successful release of team projects including
documented release plan, detailed deployment plans, and production support plans. 10%
Manage major and point releases across the Connect platform teams. Includes coordinating across multiple teams to track that software is tested and ready to be released, managing communications before and during the release, communicating and coordinating with the business to sign off on the release. 25%
OTHER REQUIRED ACCOUNTABILITIES:
· Facilitator of efficient meetings and follow up
· Open and clear style of communication to foster flow of ideas and build consensus across the project
· Cross-disciplinary understanding of software development, site-reliability engineering, product management, and quality engineering. Understanding of the software development lifecycle.
· Accurate reporting on project status and project updates using the DPG tools and processes. Understands tools needed for both project and program management and that data is properly and timely updated (e.g. decision log, issues log, risk log, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, etc.)
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
· Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Education or related field preferred.
· In depth knowledge of software development and adoption, ideally in Ed Tech
· Project Management experience required demonstrated by 5-7 years as Project Manager. Exposure to agile project management environment is required. Scrummaster experience is required.
· Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification is a plus
· PMI Agile Certified Practioner (PMI-ACP) certification is a plus
· Scaled Agile experience is a plus.
· Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
· Self-motivated and well-organized; able to prioritize tasks and work well under pressure.
· Demonstrated skills in leadership, negotiation, conflict management, communications, organizational and critical thinking
· Experience in consulting working with business partners, external vendors utilizing both traditional and rapid/lightweight project management is desired
· Ability to travel up to 15%
COMPLEXITY:
· Be able to work with cross-functional teams in an agile software development environment.
· Be acutely aware of cross-project and cross-team interdependencies and communicate accordingly to expose potential risks and escalate issues across impacted projects and teams
· Be able to lead disbursed team members across offices/time-zones
· Be able to adapt to changes in business opportunities and business priorities
· Be able to manage discussions to set project expectations and project priorities
· Be able to own and drive issues and risks to resolution/mitigation
· Be able to proactively remove impediments to ensure successful delivery of team commitment