Software Development Associate Project Manager

Acting as a Scrum Master for a project.

Following the company’s agile process and SDLC.

• Creating a healthy team culture.

• Coordinate daily activities of collocated, remote or hybrid teams, sometimes even with external contractors.

• Engage stakeholders to clarify project requirements.

• Maintain the consistency of the project backlog following guidelines, tools and templates (e.g., INVEST, a user story format, acceptance criteria).

• Organize project ceremonies such as project kick-off meetings and project retrospectives.

• Establish and document Definition of Ready and Definition of Done for backlog items.

• Plan sprints and define and control sprint scope, applying appropriate agile techniques.

• Facilitate feature and backlog item estimation sessions by applying appropriate estimation techniques.

• Identify, address and resolve team issues and impediments on time.

• Monitor project and team health by using agile methods (e.g., burn down charts).

• Managing the sprint backlog and implement change management best practices.

• Coach team members and stakeholders regarding the agile project process.

• Providing feedback and contribute to performance assessments of peers.

• Report status to relevant stakeholders following standard procedures and company-wide KPIs and metrics.

• Onboard new team members.

Keeping up to date with new approaches and frameworks in software project management.

Requirements

Education:

Bachelor degree in technology-related field or equivalent

Years of Experience

2 years of work experience