Agile Project Manager

**Title: Project Manager**

Looking for an experienced Project Manager with Agile experience who are ready to make an Impact and lead our projects \ team with the following responsibilities

**Common Responsibilities**
- To prepare and maintain the Project Plan and the project schedule and be responsible for the budgeting, execution of the plan, monitoring and controlling the software development project.
- Track actual project performance and costs against project plan, to ensure there is no deviations from plan.
- To manage the project team and the production of the required project deliverables.
- To report through agreed reporting lines on project progress through status reports.
- To adopt an appropriate technical and quality strategy to ensure the successful completion of the project to customers satisfaction.
- To conduct end of project evaluation, team performance evaluation to assess how well the project was managed and preparing the end-of-project report at project closure.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks and devise contingency plans.
- Plan and track project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

**For Agile Projects**
- Facilitate and manage sprint planning sessions, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, the product backlog and demos. unblocking barriers to ensure scrum framework is followed
- Resolve impediments in a timely manner and ensure the whole team functions smoothly.
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities, makes recommendations for changes in policies and procedures.
- Work with product owners to handle roadmaps, backlogs and new requests.
- Own and preserve the SCRUM KPIs including the velocity, points entered, WIP, etc.
- Ensure accuracy of data in the used tools and own any necessary documentation for the squad and sprints including release notes.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
- Own the internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- To proactively determine and manage risks to the project including the development of contingency Plans.

**Job Requirements**

**Qualifications**
- 15+ Years of experience and 10yrs + as project manager experience in any well-known software environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science and a PMI’s PMP certification
- Mastering experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall.
- Agile Experience is a must
- Proven experience in management multiple tracks of programs/projects especially in Middle east.
- Proven experience in working at client side.
- Excellent experience in budget planning and management.
- Excellent skills in problems resolution skill, decisions making and identifying priorities.
- Excellent presentation skills for different stakeholders.
- Proficiency in English language.
- Ability to travel for short visits (if needed)
- Mastering MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Jira/Trello/other agile management.
- Agile certificate is plus.

**Experience**
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Deep and thorough understanding of the software development best practices and challenges, especially agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban..
- Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time.
- Ability to multitask, organize, prioritize, and manage projects and deadlines.
- Demonstrate eagerness to learn and grow in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Thorough experience in leading technical teams and overseeing the work and productivity of junior and senior software engineers. with a deep Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.

**Skills**
- Demonstrated leadership skills, attention to details, through an enthusiastic approach.
- Demonstrated ability to direct, manage and motivate a project team.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and manage the deployment of resources to meet project milestones
- Enjoys a strong work ethic, professionalism, and ownership towards tasks.
- Enjoys strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Skills to build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the project as required
- Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum, which really works.

**Experience**:

- Product Manager: 8 years (required)
- Software Enviroment: 10 years (required)