Project Management Jobs
Career In Project Management

• Project manager, responsible for all the usual project management tasks such as financial management, budget reporting, care and feeding of any project management tools, status reporting to business owners, etc;
• Technical lead, responsible for the overall design, development and successful implementation; and
• Project administrator, to handle much of the details associated with maintaining the project schedule, quality assurance reporting and defect management tracking.

• Business case analysis responsibilities include definition of:

• Financial scope including projected one-time costs and ongoing operating costs;
• Tangible and intangible project benefits;
• Approach to measure project results;
• Risk analysis critical risk factors and other risks;
• Management approach including;
• Scope management approach;
• Issues management approach;
• Risk management approach;
• Quality management approach;
• Communications management approach;
• Contingency approach;
• Resource management approach; and
• Project organization.

• Project implementation planning responsibilities include defining;
• Project scope;
• Resource plan; including
• Level of effort required for all resources together with a resource loading plan to show when they are needed;
• Other critical project resources; and
• Required training;
• Project tasks and deliverables and schedule including any variations to software development methodologies that might be used such as prototyping or rapid iterative development;
• Communications plan;
• Risk management plan;
• Project configuration management plan;
• Change management plan;
• Quality assurance plan;
• Requirements management plan;
• Document management plan; and
• Project acceptance plan.

• Obtaining resources may involve:
• Interviewing internal employee's;
• Engaging contract employees;
• Negotiating contracts with consulting firms, including defining statements of work, creating requests for quotation and requests for proposals, evaluating proposals; and
• Acquiring licenses required for other critical project management tools such as software development tools.

• Ongoing management responsibilities include:
• Status reporting including financial reporting;
• Risk management;
• Change management;
• Quality assurance management;
• Requirements management;
• Release management; and
• Providing direction and technical guidance to project team members as required.

• An excellent knowledge of information management policies, standards and best practices and project methodology;
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to multi-disciplinary teams comprised of requirements analysts, data architects, data movement and BI designer/developers, quality assurance testers, and release management teams;
• Experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project or Omni Plan, and other tools such as requirements management, document management, testing and configuration management; and
• Project management certification (desired, but demonstrated hands-on experience is more important)

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field with a minimum of 12-15 years of technical design and project management experience in a variety of information management and data warehousing environments including leading database and data warehouse design, data movement and business intelligence solutions; and
• A good knowledge of information management concepts, architecture, data movement and quality assurance testing.