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Robert Half is seeking a Project Manager II - ATI to plan and coordinate all aspects of internal information system projects from initiation to production deployment. Projects typically involve network, hardware, or software implementation and upgrades. Coordinate work performed by technical and functional staff across all IT departments, internal customers, and partners, and/or vendors. Develop detailed project plans and manage all implementation processes including project chartering, resource allocation, progress tracking, issue management, risk management, budget analysis, change control, testing, documentation, training, and production deployment within budget and schedule constraints. Projects vary in number, size, and complexity.

• Manage medium-sized projects typically involving multiple technical, business, and/or vendor teams; multiple technology platforms, and cross-project dependencies.
• Facilitate and control changes to project scope, schedule, and cost with review, adjust plans as needed to ensure successful delivery.
• Motivate the project team to understand and meet customers’ expectations.
• Identify, analyze, and escalate resourcing issues to Resource Managers as appropriate.
• Ensure effective transition into production and meeting production acceptance readiness criteria.
• Is able to apply knowledge of organizational priorities, culture elements, and leadership risk profiles, to maximize effectiveness on a project.
• Track the team velocity, burn up/down using the data from Jira and Domo
• Coordinate end of release demos.
• Identify, analyze, escalate, and facilitate resolution of issues affecting project scope, schedule or cost appropriately and consistently.
• Measure and analyze progress against plan using objective, standard criteria.
• Utilize advanced analysis methods like earned value and critical path to analyze trends and anticipate issues.
• Assist in right-tracking projects in trouble.
• Adapt to changing project environment.
• Utilize knowledge of company culture, history, and lessons-learned to optimize project execution.
• Identify project stakeholders (RAPID or RACI).
• Understand and document key project parameters like business objective, customer, technical and functional scope, budget, and schedule.
• Identify project resources and any gaps to be addressed.
• Understand how the project’s technical scope supports customer needs, and where the technical work areas may be new or challenging.
• Ensure that project/release plans include provisions for organizational change management.
• Influence business and gain commitment to required changes.
• Work with business contacts and other key stakeholders to develop project plans, communications mechanisms and strategies that reflect leadership priorities.
• Create JIRA project and board and agree on JIRA parameters for best board management, based on teams involved.
• Follow standardized scrum or project management methodology.
• Accommodate changing needs by tailoring standard processes with guidance.
• As part of regular team planning and reviews, identify project risks and work with leadership to agree on mitigation strategies. Track mitigation steps until resolved.
• Identify and manage hidden and cross-project risks.
• Manage risks among multiple distributed teams.
• Use standard approved processes, tools, and templates, tailoring them as necessary.
• Lead and/or participate in process improvement efforts.
• Consolidate schedule and cost estimates from ATI staff, internal partners, and vendors.
• Assign and monitor work of ATI staff and vendors, ensuring alignment with project parameters.
• Work directly with resource managers to coordinate resource planning, mobilization, and utilization.
• Work with key project team members to develop, agree, baseline, publish, and maintain the project plan.
• Coordinate work performed by IT staff, internal partners, and vendors.
• Document and publish meeting minutes, key decisions, and action items.
• Ensure all project deliverables are published consistently and are available to all stakeholders.
• Share improvement ideas and best practices within the PMO.
• Provide input on team member performance as requested.
• Helps the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
• Supports the team in addressing and eliminating the impediments/issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Sprint.
• Create and update Project Resource Capacity Planning; Ensure Define Team has healthy backlog for your project.
• Story walkthrough with product and project scrum team.
• Release planning: Review release epics, determine dependences and plan out release.
• Track and Manager project inter-dependencies with their teams/groups.
• Closely track Team Capacity and Reaming Work (LOE) and report any issues that might impact the sprint/release deliverables.
• Facilitates team events, including the Daily Stand-up, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Retrospective ensures they are productive and kept within the timebox.
• The Scrum Master helps the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
• Proactively tailor and implement standard communications mechanisms that meet stakeholders’ needs.
• Communicate accurately, courteously, and concisely in accordance with approved communication plan.
• Facilitate meetings to ensure purpose, flow, participation, and follow-up including the collection of action items and production of meeting outcomes.
• Oversee effective communications among technical and functional IT staff, internal partners and customers, and vendors.
• Publish objective, regular, accurate project status to stakeholders escalating any needed decision points to appropriate stakeholder(s).
• Sprint Demo’s - Drive Sprint demos with clear agenda on who is presenting/Demoing.
• Weekly Status reporting to key stakeholders with Issues and challenges faced by the project: present the options, if possible, and your preference with a reason.