Associate Project Manager

 JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organize and facilitate project related meetings such as sprint planning, sprint review, daily stand ups, delivery reviews and retrospectives.
• Resolving conflicts among members of projects and coaching them.
• Guiding project team members in organizing their work, making presentations, setting priorities, handling conflicting demands, making decisions etc.
• Assisting product owners to strike a balance between product features vs. product quality by providing required information.
• Continuous learning on project management and scrum methodology and share the new learning with project stakeholders.
• Remove project bottlenecks and increase team productivity.
• Analyze burn down charts on a daily basis and prevent task slippage.
• Manage customer expectations and minimize escalations.
• Review stories for the sprint and ensure sufficient effort is provisioned for non-functional, infrastructure and defect fixes.
• Ensure DOD is followed before moving the stories to the done column.
• Ensure DOR is followed before taking the stories to sprint.
• Manage changes and feedback outside of sprint. (i.e. any feedback or change request received during sprint execution or after sprint review should go to the backlog.
• Backlog to be reviewed and re-prioritized.
• Escalate customer concerns in a timely manner to Mitra leadership.
• Educate team on product vision, road map, main releases.
• Support product owner on maintaining product backlog and user stories,
• Create billing sheets at the end of the month.
• Ensure daily time logs against products. Weekly review of time entries of the team and notify finance for any deviation.
• Checking all the models the team uses (e.g. Sprint backlog, metrics, etc.) and show them differences between the model and the real world.
• Helping the team to keep focus (e.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the team).
• Helping team members to have a manageable workload; prevent burnouts.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• Bachelor degree in computing/IT or business management
• Preferably 1-2 years’ experience in a similar role
• Sound knowledge on Agile/Scrum framework
• Professional qualifications preferably PMP/CSM
• Ability to understand the requirements of different business domains and technicalities of software engineering.
• Ability to communicate effectively with different project stakeholders.
• Working on banking/financial projects before is desired

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