Senior Project Manager

SSC Egypt

Responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of a software development or systems integration project. Responsible for directing and supervising project development, in accordance with the requirements of the client. In charge of managing and tracking scope, schedule, costs, and quality on a day to day basis for large-sized projects. A Senior Project Leader should be able to identify issues, detect unstated assumptions, resolve interpersonal conflicts, as well as use systematic management skills. This position usually requires 10 13 years of relevant experience.

Requirements understanding :

• Understand and verify the functional Requirements of the software.
• Understand the non-functional Requirements of the software.
• Agree with systems analyst on the different methodologies of requirements gathering and analysis.
• Determine the existence of any conflicts within the Requirements of the software.
• Ensure the commitment of the development team to the requirements.
• Refer to the Requirements Owner in case any changes are needed in the requirements due to technical issues to ensure that the change has no negative impacts on the customer from the business perspective.
• Perform risk assessment on the requirements.
• Agree with systems analyst on requirements priorities and dependencies.
• Could validate the requirements to ensure stakeholders need and expectation, ex. prototypes could be used.
• Ensure proper understanding and review of requirements document by stakeholders.
• Ensure proper understanding of Change requests by stakeholders and communicates with client when needed.
• Is responsible for defining and controlling the scope of the project.

Software Construction

• Own the project deliverables, i.e. Requirements specs, design document, schedule, code, etc.
• Review unit test cases and makes sure the developers understanding of the requirements is correct.
• Ensure that the product integration procedure follows the established project schedule, and acceptance criteria that is defined in the testing plan

Software Design

• Review design and design document to ensure its compliance with the client requirements and internal systems.
• Review make-buy-reuse analysis (DAR).
• Conduct meeting with graphics team to arrange for the requested Graphic Design job and verifies output with requirements.

Change Management

• Implement re-estimates if the projects requirements are changed due to incompletion, ambiguity, etc.
• Receive a change request from the client, documents the issues and ensures clear understanding with the client of the Change Request (CR) through meetings, emails, etc.
• Meet with Change Control Board (CCB) defined in the Project Plan document to evaluate the Change Request issue(s), to determine the feasibility and impact on the project.
• Perform sizing for Change Request according to its requirements.
• Identify risks that would affect the external commitments with the
• Identify risks that would affect the external commitments with the client.
• Send the CR Effort Estimate to the SDM and EM to review, then to the client for approval before proceeding with implementation.

Project Management

• Identify Project Team Structure and Allocate Needed Resources.
• Review project plans, activities, and work products (project plans, prototype, test cases, QE measurement reports, project code, user manual and guide etc) for their consistency with requirements of the project.
• Update project plans and work products resulting from changes or additions to the requirements baseline.
• Track the progress of the project through updating project plans and schedule regularly.
• Make use of DAR process for resolving issues faced in the project.
• Track the status of testing activities, through the reports submitted by QE and through meetings between them. to Update task status on Changepoint.
• Hold Closure meeting with all team members and stakeholders to discuss and analyze what went right or wrong, and to produce final views, reports and lessons learnt.
• Update CV at project closure.
• Ensure that team members updated their skills and CV with the project Ensure that team members updated their skills and CV with the skills learnt in the project.

Configuration Management:

• Select the suitable development, testing and deployment environments for the project.
• Verify that the building environment is ready.
• Review project baselines.
• Review packages/documents to be delivered.