Role Proficiency:
Perform end-to-end management of a single project up to TCV of 500K with time and effort based or deliverable based model; by delivering the agreed scope within the agreed timeline and cost.
Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met enhancing customer satisfaction.
Outcomes:
- Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
- Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
- Define activities responsibilities critical milestones resources skills needs interfaces and budget.
Optimize costs and time utilisation minimize waste and deliver projects on time on budget as per the contract and agreed scope with a high quality result.
- Implement the governance model defined for similar projects
- Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health
- Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs
- Provide individual and team mentoring; ensuring high levels of team engagement and developing capabilities within team
- Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams
Measures of Outcomes:
- Sprint velocity/team productivity
- Planned schedule vs actual
- Planned effort vs actual
- Planned cost vs actual
- Retention
- Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management
- Product quality (rework effort defect density defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)
- Risk management index
- Adoption of reusable components and artefacts
- Customer satisfaction
- Team satisfaction
Outputs Expected:
Scope Management:
- Conduct requirements analysis
requirements elicitation
scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
- Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents
traceability matrix
bridge documents
analysis methodologies and solution artefacts
- Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
- Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization
Estimation and Resource Planning:
- Consolidate estimates at a solution level
evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint
with assumptions
scope and boundaries defined
- Review and validate estimates across service lines
- Conduct resource planning (pyramid
people development) at a project level based on project requirements
- Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading
- Identify the different roles and skills for each role
considering the constraints
pre-requisites and other project specific KPIs
Project/ Schedule Management:
- Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple
small projects/ modules
- Anticipate items that cause schedule delays
schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan
- Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same
- Estimate the work
plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis
Risk/Issue management:
- Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs.
Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan
- Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path
- Document the risks and issues in the project
communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact
Stakeholder Management:
- Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project
- Define the RACIA chart and communicate the roles/responsibilities to the stakeholders
- Define the communication plan and implement the same
Test and Defect Management:
- Support system integration testing (functional / technical)
- Review/mentor team during test execution
- Support defining the test strategy and scenarios
- Understand the business impact of defects
- Prioritize the defects based on their criticality and severity
- Participate in defect triage meetings
- Identify and analyse root cause of defects
- Interpret the results
Software Development Process Tools & Techniques:
- Define/adopt the right tooling strategy for the project
- Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high-quality work products
- Meet project goals
ensure process compliance and mentor the team
Governance:
- Tailor organization's quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet specific project quality requirements and processes
Domain / Industry Knowledge:
- Understand how the proposed solution meets client requirements
Technology Concepts:
- Understand customer's technology landscape
- Map business requirements to technology requirements
- Set