Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned):
Project Practices
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- Facilitates Scrum projects as a servant-leader to help teams effectively leverage Scrum on ThreeWill projects (e.g. leads through influencing vs. command and control)
- Creates and facilitates Sprint plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements in a collaborative way
- Identifies resources needed and coordinates with Delivery leadership to ensure an effective team is in place
- Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope along with finding opportunities for improvements in implementing Scrum on client projects
- Reviews key deliverables prepared by the team before presentation to the client
- Minimizes ThreeWill exposure and risk on the project through timely and effective risk management and communication of project risks
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
- Tracks and reports project accomplishments, plans, and budget (team hours and expenses) on a weekly basis
- Manages project budget to scope and timeline of their team’s projects
- Leverages Scrum artifacts (backlog, burndown, etc.) to transparently communicate progress to clients and team
- May assist in recruiting activities, including recommending qualified candidates, interviewing candidates, and assessing candidate skills
- Builds a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization, and objectives
- Represents ThreeWill values to other associates and clients
Project Management Methodology
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- Mentors other associates to ensure adoption of Scrum practices that ThreeWill teams have leveraged as proven project practices
- Educates customers on the value of leveraging Scrum and what their role is in the processes that ensure a successful project
- Suggests and implements improvements to Scrum practices that allow ThreeWill to more effectively deliver Client projects
- Ensures project teams capture knowledge of the engagement as part of ongoing improvement processes
- Maintains awareness of new and emerging technologies and the potential application on client engagements
Business Development
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- Identifies business development opportunities as they relate to a specific project or client
- May support proposal efforts, including completing project scoping and Level of Effort (LOE) assessments
PRIMARY SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE
- Excellent written, verbal, critical thinking, and analytical skills
- Good to excellent understanding of Microsoft technologies, in particular, SharePoint and Office Technologies
- Solid command of Microsoft Office software packages, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Project management and software development methodologies, especially Agile SCRUM
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent and 3 to 5 years of relevant project experience is required. Alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- Beneficial Skills / Certifications:
- http://www.microsoft.com – (MCPD, MCP, MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE, MCAD, MOS)
- http://www.pmi.org – (PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP)
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master – (CSM)
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