Tasked with keeping all the elements of a project together, a Project Manager liaises with a range of people including users and managers to ensure that all tasks are proceeding according to schedule.
Besides establishing project plans, milestones and results in consultation with business users and developers, the Project Manager also negotiates with vendors and other team leaders to ensure adequate resources are available during various phases of the project.
Other responsibilities include ensuring that proposals are analysed and evaluated for their benefits and costs; defining project resources, performance reviews and post-implementation evaluations; and building relationships with users, technical staff and management to determine and resolve issues associated with systems implementation.
- Apply a project management framework to manage the whole project lifecycle
- Assess project time constraints to sequence tasks accordingly
- Communicate project information to team members
- Conduct regular reviews to control the quality of project deliverables and testing processes
- Define project scope and quality requirements with stakeholders
- Develop appropriate frameworks to manage the performance and communications of a virtual team
- Develop procurement plan based on project procurement needs
- Develop project budget by project specifications and organisation's cost policies
- Develop project communications plan with communication management processes
- Establish an appropriate governance structure and change control activities to manage the project
- Implement and manage project schedule
- Manage procurement activities to meet project objectives on time and within the budget
- Manage project information to ensure relevant stakeholders are updated of the project changes
- Manage software configuration
- Manage the quality of the system development process
- Monitor actual progress against the agreed schedule and plans
- Monitor and control project risks developing scenarios for variances and risk management plan
- Recommend follow-up actions to relevant stakeholders
- Select project methodology and use it as a basis to track project status
- Select quality management framework that enables effective communication to stakeholders
Skills & Requirements:
- Minimally 8 years of IT project experience
- Minimally 2 to <4 years of IT project management experience, with key responsibilities as Project Manager
- Successfully implemented at least 1 project SDLC
- Has led a team of 5 or more team members in project implementation or delivery of application managed services
- Good to have: Agile development experience