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- Analyze project proposals to assess project timeline, budget, and necessary activities to achieve desired results.
- Identify and schedule deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project lifecycle to ensure timelines are met.
- Establish work and staffing plans for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for project assignment.
- Design and implement project communication plans.
- Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
- Create project documentation using input from cross-functional teams, including but not limited to Project Charters, detailed functional requirements, and project plans.
- Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of information while providing consistency in content and form across the organization.
- Ensure that project goals are aligned with business objectives.
- Control scope to limit scope creep and drive change control through proper channels if scope adjustments are necessary.
- Ensure that project goals are achieved.
- Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
- Ensure project quality by overseeing project QA planning and execution.
- Ensure project delivery by overseeing project UAT planning and execution.
- Create weekly status reports modify schedules or plans as required.
- Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
- Coordinate and work with the following primary stakeholders:
- Project sponsor and key stakeholders
- Project team/staff (including designated users or customers)
- Subject matter experts
- Business analysts
- Quality Assurance (QA) testers
- IT Architects, Developers
- Experience in leading projects.
- Experience in leading teams.
- Strong "soft skills" or "people skills."
- Ability to lead and motivate others, empathize, and know personality types.
- Familiarity with both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
- Board management experience using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.
- Knowledge of project-planning tools such as MS Project.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
- Well-developed time management skills with a strong ability to multitask.
- Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial, and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
- The ability to ask questions and determine downstream implications of project decisions.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
- Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises use them to drive digital business.
- Ability to develop and execute a project resource plan that ensures that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
- Understands the business benefits of a project and connects project objectives to broader organizational goals.
- Incorporates end-user feedback appropriately to refine scope and address shortcomings throughout the life cycle.
- Takes responsibility for project success and project problems.
- Determines the effect of organizational changes on project teams, anticipating associated challenges and creating workable solutions for them.
Project Manager - Windsor, United States - VBeyond Corporation
Description
Project Manager
Windsor, CT
Full-Time Permanent
Job Description - Project Manager
The primary purpose of the Project Manager role is to lead the successful delivery of software development releases including, but not limited to, major projects, medium-sized system enhancements, and regular support patches/fixes. The Project Manager must accomplish this with well-coordinated stakeholder management, and within scope, to a high degree of quality, and within time and cost constraints.
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