Agile Project Manager III
Full time
at Boardroom Appointments
in
South Africa
Posted on January 15, 2025
Job details
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Professional Qualifications/Honours Degree
- PMP or Prince certification.
- Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification (ideal)
- 5-8 years working experience in project environment of which 5 years in a PM role
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Industry trends
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research methodology
- Principles of financial management
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Principles of project management
- Communication Strategies
- Decision-making process
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Principles of financial management
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Principles of project management
- Communication Strategies
- Decision-making process
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
- Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
- Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
- Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
- Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
- Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
- Ensure project budget are managed within project scope.
- Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
- Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
- Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations.
- Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule.
- Meet project requirements.
- Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
- Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
- Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan.
- Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
- Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle.
- Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan.
- Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood.
- Ensure clients are informed.
- Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
- Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
- Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope.
- Ensure sufficient resource allocations.
- Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology.
- Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.
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