Thursday, May 23, 2013

Scrum Product Owner / Sr. Project Manager /// Rockville, MD

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

Please let me know if you would be interested for the below mentioned position ASAP. Please send your resumes to maheshwari@svksystems.com

 

Role: Scrum Product Owner / Sr. Project Manager

Location: Rockville, MD. 

Duration:3+Months

Local to MD,VA,DC

 

Seasoned Project Manager with PMP certification and several years experience in a Scrum team as either PO or Scrum Master. Prefer either CSPO or CSM certification. PMI-ACP certification considered a plus.

 

1. Creates and MAINTAINS the Release Plan. The Product Owner need to keep and maintain a release plan in order to set appropriate customer expectations, allow external teams to plan and to set a baseline for the PMO to monitor project progress.

2. Creates and MAINTAINS the Product Backlog. This is an on-going job and more than likely a full-time activity. Nothing is constant in the world of software and it's important that the Product Owner keeps his/her eye on the ball.

3. Prioritizes and sequences the Backlog according to business value or ROI. The Product Owner is required to have the Backlog sequenced prior to the Sprint Planning Meeting. This means that each user story must be ordered by relative importance. It's no good to have 5 high priority or 5 medium priorities. It's important to know which User story is #1, which is #2 etc. If one Scrum team develops more than one product, the team's backlog needs to clearly show the relative priority between the various products.

4. Manages the breakdown of Epics into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint. User Stories are elaborated at the last responsible moment and it is the Product Owners responsibility to ensure that all Epics that may have components that are included in the following sprint are sufficiently broken down in time for the Sprint Planning Meeting. Each user story should be broken down as far as possible so it makes it easier for the team to estimate. No story should ever be sized so that in can not be performed in one single sprint.

5. Conveys the Vision and Goals at the beginning of every Release and Sprint. The Product Owner must continuously remind the Team of the Sprint and Release goals. This helps to keep the team on track and serves as an over-arching yardstick for the team to measure their activity and progress against.

6. Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer. The Product Owner must continuously engage the customer and stakeholders to ensure the Team is building the right product and therefore delivering the ROI expected of it. The Product Owner has the opportunity to steer the team in a different direction at the end of every Sprint, so he/she must be ready to do just that if necessary. It is expected that a PO has at least weekly meetings with a person that has decision making authority for the requested service (or designee) within the customer's organization.

7. Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. There's always a lot going on and always an excuse to miss the meetings, but each of these Scrum ceremonies is another chance for the Product Owner to inspect and adapt. As a result, being present at these ceremonies is tantamount to success.

8. Inspects the progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work done. Work that is incomplete or rejected needs to be re-prioritized or sequenced. An Agile PM is one who is quick to recognize and understand change and to ensure the Product Team adapts to the change in landscape.

9. Can change the course of the project at the end of every Sprint. The Product Owner is in complete control and can steer the team in a completely different direction at Sprint boundaries based on changes in Business Value. Good Agile teams will welcome this change as long as the Product Owner is confident and knowledgeable.

10. Communicates status to Stakeholders. The product owner is the voice of the Team to the outside world and should ensure that a communication plan exists and is being followed. A minimum of communication is a weekly status report to the stakeholder community.

 

Skill/Role                Level       Years      Preference

Project Management Methodologies       Expert      0.0           Required

Change Management               Expert      0.0           Required

Sales Representative                Intermediate             0.0           Preferred

Project Lead            Expert      0.0           Required

Project Leadership   Expert      0.0           Required

 

 

Certification Credential            Preference               Comments

PMI (Project Management Institute)       Required  PMP

 

 

 

Thanks & Regards

Maheshwari

SVK SYSTEMS, INC
maheshwari@svksystems.com |www.svksystems.com|

DIRECT: 678-824-7758

IM:  mahi.staffing        Gtalk: ch.mahi1810

 

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