Project Manager

Project Planning

• Develop Project Plan. The Project Plan should include the Project Charter, Scope Statement, constraints, assumptions, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) defining project deliverables, cost estimates and project budget, major milestones, schedule, resource requirements, acquisition/procurement plans, risk analysis and response plans, project team structure and communications plan. Also included will be the deliverables acceptance criteria (quality metrics) and the acceptance process.
• Develop the supporting plans such as scope, cost, risk, schedule, quality, resource, procurement and change management plans.
• Obtain stakeholder approval and acceptance of the Project Plan.
• Obtain organizational commitment and support for completion of project task assignments, timing and quality.
• Establish baseline for scope, budget and time.
• Detail in TWiki/IMS relevant information for project.
• Assure the translation of documented requirements into appropriate Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation.
• Create the handover plan for stability period in collaboration with Support Team Manager Role (s).

Project Execution

• Manage and monitor day-to-day activity and provide direction to team members and supporting organizations.
• Manage to and monitor quality targets and goals (both project and product).
• Manage and monitor risk response strategies.
• Disseminate project information and maintain communication.
• Manage, or support, procurement process and contract administration requirements.

Project Control

• Develop and distribute project performance reports. Regularly review project status, evaluating performance criteria (scope, cost, schedule, and quality).
• Develop and manage corrective action plans including Change Requests (CRs) and issues management.
• Evaluate project performance and initiate change requests as required (scope, cost, schedule or quality).
• Participate in change control board to review and approve product/project changes.
• Review project risks and establish risk response plans.
• Adjust project planning, as required, to include approved changes in scope, timing, cost or quality after obtaining customer approval.

Project Close-out

• Obtain customer and management approval and acceptance of completed project.
• Close-out open action items.
• Develop post-implementation report and lessons learned (LL).
• Conduct LL session and develop recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Archive all project data in Alfresco.
• Recognize project team and celebrate success.

Project Human Resources (HR)

• Employee evaluation during the project and communicating to the employee.
• Employee evaluation at the end of the project and communicating to Team Manager Role (TM).
• Employee motivation.
• Administrative activities for onsite arrangements.