Job Description:
Job Title: Project Manager III
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: : 06 Months
 
Agile Squad Leadership?

• 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 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.?

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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 deliverables ?
• 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 ?

 
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.?
• Process, Tools, Standards, and Continuous Improvement?
• Accountable to follow IT Agile processes for delivery of commitments?
• Provides feedback into the improvement of Agile practice?
• Knowledge in Waterfall is required as well.
• Experience and undertanding of Infrastructure is desired

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 55.00/hr.