WHAT DOES AN IT PROJECT MANAGER DO?

Published: Jun 24, 2025 - The IT Project Manager delivers high-quality IT projects by leading cross-functional teams, bridging gaps between business and IT stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with scope, methodology, and resource planning. This role proactively manages risks and dependencies, supports seamless transitions to IT operations, and resolves process-related issues to ensure successful project go-lives. The manager promotes a customer-focused, can-do culture while driving solution evaluation, stakeholder alignment, and budget-justified business cases.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for IT Project Manager

1. IT Project Manager Duties

  • Project Oversight: Provide an independent oversight on the probability of successful completion of key projects and programs and produce a report to Management
  • Information Analysis: Ensure information quality and develop analysis and recommendations around big picture insights that can only be gleaned from aggregated information
  • Decision Support: Enable well-informed and fast decision-making to ensure the success of the projects through the setup of an appropriate reporting process
  • Risk Communication: Convey risks and issues impacting the project manager’s ability to deliver the value their project was chartered for
  • Staff Management: Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations
  • Performance Evaluation: Planning, monitoring, and appraising job results
  • Employee Coaching: Coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees
  • Policy Enforcement: Initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures
  • Budget Planning: Scope project requirements and prepare a budget
  • Project Planning: Develop a detailed project plan and monitor progress
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement projects
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure quality standards are met
  • Quality Documentation: Conduct Quality Gate meetings and prepare necessary documentation
  • Task Coordination: Communicate with the team and ensure all members are on board with delegated tasks
  • Issue Resolution: Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues

2. IT Project Manager Details

  • Scope Definition: Facilitating the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all stakeholders.
  • System Delivery: Managing the delivery of an ITSM system (ServiceNOW) across functional workstreams.
  • Team Leadership: Manage a team of solution architects, test personnel, business analyst(s), key stakeholders, third-party vendors,
  • Scope Definition: Facilitating the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all stakeholders
  • System Delivery: Managing the delivery of an ITSM system (ServiceNOW) across functional workstreams
  • Team Management: Manage a team of solution architects, test personnel, business analyst(s), key stakeholders, third-party vendors and project resources
  • Resource Coordination: Coordination of resources including internal staff and external parties
  • Financial Management: Project financial management including statements of work, purchase orders, invoices, timesheets and forecasts
  • Risk Management: Risk, issue and change management – business, IT environment and project scope related
  • Project Delivery: Successful delivery of project outcomes within the timeframe and budget
  • Project Documentation: Project documentation, governance and reporting
  • Process Improvement: Contribution to the continuous improvement of processes, procedures and standards
  • Asset Security: Each member of Information Technology is responsible for helping to keep information assets and information processing assets secure
  • Policy Compliance: Complying with information security policies and working with the Information Security Manager to achieve positive security outcomes
  •  and project resources.
  • Resource Coordination: Coordination of resources including internal staff and external parties.
  • Financial Management: Project financial management including statements of work, purchase orders, invoices, timesheets, and forecasts.
  • Risk Management: Risk, issue, and change management related to business, IT environment, and project scope.
  • Project Delivery: Successful delivery of project outcomes within the timeframe and budget.
  • Project Documentation: Project documentation, governance, and reporting.
  • Process Improvement: Contribution to the continuous improvement of processes, procedures, and standards.
  • Asset Protection: Responsible for helping to keep information assets and information processing assets secure.
  • Security Compliance: Complying with information security policies and working with the Information Security Manager to achieve positive security outcomes.

3. IT Project Manager Responsibilities

  • Team Partnership: Partner with technical teams (i.e. SCRUM Team, QA Team, Development Team, etc.) through all phases of the SDLC to track the status of technical projects
  • Project Oversight: Oversee all facets of assigned projects including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, communication and closure
  • Issue Anticipation: Track multiple medium to large-scale projects concurrently while looking out to the horizon to anticipate and communicate potential issues and changes
  • Group Management: Manage all project groups to maintain focus on project objectives, timeline and delivery
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with business stakeholders to maintain alignment on project objectives/requirements
  • Process Enhancement: Assist in recommending, developing and enhancing Project Management Office processes, procedures and tool sets while supporting the PMO roadmap
  • Staff Mentorship: Mentor Junior Project Managers and Project Analysts

4. IT Project Manager Job Summary

  • Project Leadership: Oversees all aspects of multiple large projects
  • Scope Monitoring: Monitoring, managing and communicating the project scope, budgets, and schedule from project conception to implementation to closure
  • Risk Management: Manage risks, issues and changes to keep multiple projects on track and escalates
  • Resource Awareness: Maintain awareness of resource availability amongst Information Technology teams and stakeholders
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintains ongoing communication with stakeholders during the project to ensure that they are up to date on project progress
  • Change Planning: Work with business analysis and stakeholders on key process changes resulting from projects and determine a change management plan
  • Progress Reporting: Monitors, communicates, and reports project process against project plan, requirements, budget, quality measures, and expected results
  • Vendor Management: Builds and manages external vendor relationships for the duration of the project
  • Team Mentorship: Mentors and assists in training junior team members
  • Meeting Coordination: Coordinates meetings with stakeholders and vendors to assess vendors, gather requirements, develop solutions and complete training

5. IT Project Manager Accountabilities

  • Project Improvement: Identify and manage improvement IT projects
  • Issue Escalation: Escalating issues requiring developer/analyst input within internal IT teams or vendors
  • Status Reporting: Produce regular (weekly) reports of issue status and plans and activities to manage
  • Issue Management: Proactively manage issue trends, propose and execute plans to manage issues and to meet or exceed service levels
  • Vendor Coordination: Manage support personnel and vendors in the delivery of small changes, fixes and workarounds to address user-experienced system issues
  • Priority Support: Support the process of prioritization of issues and change requests with the business and IT teams
  • Request Tracking: Track the status of issues and feature requests with internal and external (vendor) systems and service providers
  • System Availability: Ensuring production systems are fully operational
  • User Support: Responding to user queries promptly and providing advice on the use of the systems
  • Resolution Facilitation: Managing to bring everyone from different teams shortly into the call to drive for quick resolution
  • Process Documentation: Identify and fully document processes used to resolve recurring issues
  • Support Management: Application support management
  • Issue Resolution: Manage the provision of second-line support for user issues including performing the support activities

6. IT Project Manager Functions

  • Data Reporting: Gather and report on the team's operational statistics
  • Commitment Tracking: Gather, document and track external commitments
  • Meeting Organization: Organize meetings with stakeholders
  • Consultant Administration: Handle consultant administration
  • Account Auditing: Account management and audit
  • Coverage Monitoring: Keep track of the team's coverage information
  • Deployment Representation: Represent the team's deployments at the Change Board
  • Invoice Processing: Process Invoices, POs, and contracts
  • Infrastructure Coordination: Partner with the CIO office units and the systems infrastructure team in the communication of hardening or migrations in existing or new infrastructure
  • Meeting Facilitation: Set meeting agendas, document meeting minutes, and track/resolve action items including providing status to teams and leads
  • Change Validation: Work closely with the technical teams to ensure prerequisites and activities for the changes meet existing requirements
  • Project Execution: Perform project management tasks for all technology projects
  • Risk Communication: Identifying project risks and contingency plans, communicating project status to management and other stakeholders, and escalating issues to adjust project scope, resources or timelines

7. IT Project Manager Job Description

  • Agile Facilitation: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, sprint/release planning, and story mapping sessions
  • Story Mapping: Work closely with the product owner and the scrum team to develop and maintain a project story map that defines the minimum viable product
  • Lifecycle Oversight: Oversee all activities from a software development life cycle perspective including budget planning, scheduling, tracking, initiation, build, test, and release
  • Team Coaching: Utilize strong coaching and mentorship skills to build a collaborative, productive, and engaged team environment
  • Impediment Resolution: Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery and administer metrics tracking and other duties on behalf of the team
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Manage/engage expectations of Senior Management Stakeholders (i.e., chairing/facilitating Steering Committees) and providing weekly status reports
  • Dependency Management: Manage/mitigate risks and/or cross-project dependencies (Scrum of Scrums)
  • Collaboration Promotion: Help break down organizational silos and promote collaborations

8. IT Project Manager Overview

  • Project Coordination: Coordinate projects between the technical team and the other departments within BoxyCharm
  • Timeline Management: Manage project timelines and create roadmaps to illustrate the project flow, deliverables, deadlines, and dependencies
  • Status Reporting: Report to upper management on project statuses
  • Project Ownership: Keep track and provide ownership of multiple projects at once
  • Scope Alignment: Participate in scoping discussions to ensure that the correct amount of work is being done to meet the business needs
  • Requirement Definition: Define clear business requirements for initiatives
  • Vision Communication: Define, drive and effectively communicate product vision and roadmap across cross-functional stakeholders and executive-level teams
  • Driver Analysis: Evaluate situations to understand business drivers, and reduce complex scenarios into actionable tasks, including steps for completion (business process and system)
  • Scenario Evaluation: Conduct scenario analysis, and identify key performance drivers as well as risks/opportunities to performance targets
  • Trend Analysis: Maneuver through high volumes of data across multiple systems, to spot issues/trends and identify probable outcomes and provide recommendations for improvement
  • Operational Analysis: Manage day-to-day operational needs by analyzing financial and statistical information for internal stakeholders
  • Design Facilitation: Facilitate joint application design work across functional teams
  • Team Collaboration: Work in close collaboration with a dedicated team of cross-functional professionals (product owners, Agile team, software group, business and marketing groups) during all stages of development
  • Reporting Management: Manage various reporting obligations (KPIs, performance statistics, business cases, process maps, and presentations for senior management)

9. IT Project Manager Details and Accountabilities

  • Team Management: Plans, develops, implements, and manages a project team through complete task definition and work requirement identification and assignment
  • Relationship Building: Builds, develops, and maintains collaborative working relationships across FSE, University and third-party vendors vital to project success, including managing differing priorities and resolving conflict
  • Scope Definition: Works closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders, leadership, and other related staff to define project objectives and scope, strategy, schedule, budget, procedures, and outcomes during various phases of project life cycle
  • Resource Identification: Identifies critical resource expertise and targets appropriate sources to ensure optimal outcomes
  • Expectation Management: Establishes and continually monitors/manages project expectations with teams
  • Status Communication: Responds to all inquiries regarding project status, serves as liaison for the project team at meetings, and communicates project information to personnel
  • Staff Supervision: Manages, coaches, and supervises a team to ensure optimal outcomes
  • Report Preparation: Prepares and maintains all project status reports
  • Milestone Tracking: Tracks milestones/deliverables, risks, critical paths, and dependencies
  • Roadmap Development: Develops roadmaps and iterative project plans
  • Expectation Resetting: Resets expectations in consideration of project progress/outcomes
  • Post-project Reporting: Prepares all post-project reports, budget allocations and summaries to ensure timely dissemination of information to all interested parties
  • Duty Coordination: Assumes or coordinates other duties or projects as assigned or directed by the Director

10. IT Project Manager Tasks

  • Project Ownership: Own and drive projects for renovations, new hotels and restaurant openings
  • CAPEX Management: Manage CAPEX replacement projects to enhance employee and guests' experiences (Hotel TV, Wifi, door locks, servers)
  • Technical Support: Drive technical input and support for the design, validation, deployment and configuration management of IT infrastructure
  • Asset Deployment: IT asset management, patch management and deployment of new hardware
  • Issue Resolution: Proactively identify, analyze, and resolve network and system problems and performance issues
  • Partner Relations: Grow relationships with partners to optimize outsourced activities in line with contractual SLA’s
  • Maintenance Support: Provide periodic out-of-hours and weekend support for scheduled maintenance and software release activities

11. IT Project Manager Roles

  • Project Coordination: Coordination and project management support of technology-related projects in the cybersecurity technology field
  • Plan Execution: Successfully develops, manages, executes and refines project plans throughout the project lifecycle
  • Scope Compliance: Ensure projects are delivered within scope, on time and within budget by following documented project management methodology for all projects and initiatives
  • Goal Alignment: Ensures that project teams understand the scope of each project, have a clear knowledge of clients' business goals, issues, and processes through comprehensive data collection and analysis
  • Status Communication: Clearly and actively communicates project status to stakeholders, i.e., clients, team members, and NuHarbor management
  • Efficiency Improvement: Identifies and scopes opportunities for improvements in efficiency, quality, maturity, and capabilities
  • Customer Focus: Considers the possible impact on the customer when setting goals, acting or when carrying out job responsibilities
  • Risk Mitigation: Anticipates, identifies, and resolves risks/issues/concerns both internally and externally using standard risk management/mitigation processes and procedures
  • Solution Development: Develops and presents solutions to appropriate parties
  • Client Advisory: Become a trusted adviser with clients and colleagues

12. IT Project Manager Additional Details

  • Recovery Planning: Manage the creation of a Disaster Recovery plan, including the build and testing of the Disaster Recovery solution for the organization’s ERP system
  • Vendor Management: Manage project and third-party vendor deliverables, ensure on-time completion of all deliverables and tasks
  • Progress Review: Conduct progress reviews with functional teams / third-party vendors
  • Milestone Tracking: Ensure IT deliverables and milestones are on track and adhere to quality standards and deliverable acceptance criteria
  • Issue Resolution: Manage the resolution of IT issues, risks, and mitigation and ensure prompt escalations to the IT Service Delivery Manager
  • Report Writing: Superior writing skills to prepare/edit comprehensive reports, and other documents with strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
  • Performance Leadership: Work with a sense of urgency and demonstrate leadership skills to achieve high performance and excellent service

13. IT Project Manager Essential Functions

  • Adoption Planning: Coordinate, plan and execute project management (adoption) plans in assigned areas and accounts
  • Relationship Building: Establish close and trusting relationships with own engineering and CX staff as well as with assigned clients
  • Lifecycle Mastery: Master the Cisco CX (Customer Experience) principles regarding the Lifecycle model, with a specific focus on Adoption requirements
  • Meeting Leadership: Plan and lead client meetings for assigned service customers and projects
  • Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders (e.g., business owners, process owners, domain experts) to identify specific business requirements
  • Report Alignment: Aligning division-wide reporting, building and maintaining division-wide reports and dashboards, and contributing to streamlining the operating rhythm
  • Metrics Development: Enabling a metrics-driven culture by increasing transparency into performance by developing metrics, reports, dashboards, UI’s, etc. that align to division priorities and highlight performance in key business focus areas and elevate risks that need to be addressed
  • Change Integration: Working closely with teams and colleagues across divisions to ensure alignment, integration and execution of necessary changes to business review, metrics reporting and processes
  • Status Reporting: Preparing detailed and accurate status reports on an ongoing basis, mitigating delays to the implementation, and escalating issues to the leadership team
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Relentlessly collaborating across and communicating with a myriad of stakeholders while serving clients and increasing NPS
  • Strategy Definition: Defining work strategies, aligning these with resources and desired client outcomes, and overseeing the planning and execution of the work
  • Problem Solving: Uses pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems within the area of expertise
  • Work Prioritization: Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet deadlines

14. IT Project Manager Role Purpose

  • Project Delivery: Own and manage the delivery of IT projects within Kraft Heinz
  • Team Culture: Support and promote an IT team culture of “can-do”
  • Customer Focus: Customer-focused and proactively works with the business partners to identify requirements
  • Stakeholder Bridging: Prepared to roll up sleeves and bridge the gap between business and IT stakeholders
  • Dependency Management: Proactively manage IT project dependencies
  • Operational Transition: Support the delivery and transition to IT operational support of IT applications, infrastructure and services, including supporting business in resolving business process-related issues
  • Issue Coordination: Track, monitor and coordinate resolution to risks and issues impacting project deliverables
  • Risk Escalation: Elevate risks to the management level
  • Team Leadership: Manage cross-functional, multinational, multivendor teams in developing and troubleshooting solutions to meet business requirements
  • Quality Delivery: Ensure projects are consistently delivered with a high level of quality, within budget and time
  • Methodology Compliance: Manage projects by the principles of Project Methodology
  • Solution Evaluation: Evaluate and analyse options available and recommend the best solution
  • Case Support: Support stakeholders to ensure all projects and initiatives have a strong business case, benefits and adequate budget for project resources
  • Scope Control: Ensure that project scope change is tightly controlled and approved by the correct level of authority
  • Resource Planning: Ensure that projects are adequately resourced through proper planning, forecasting, monitoring and promptly reacting to resource engagement issues as they arise
  • GoLive Support: Supporting project go-live activities (including hyper-care / warranty) to ensure all IT projects are successfully transitioned into production with IT Operations and correctly closed
  • Risk Tracking: Effectively identify, track and manage potential risks and/issues

15. IT Project Manager General Responsibilities

  • Resource Planning: Lead the Resource Planning for multiple projects simultaneously and continually maintain resource allocation forecasts for all projects
  • Risk Management: Lead the team with successful delivery of the project through risk management, project control (ensuring adherence to scope/schedule/budget)
  • Agile Delivery: Apply hybrid agile delivery methodology, change control documentation, task tracking, work item assignments and status tracking, etc.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Responsible for ensuring proper communication among all team members and project stakeholders through the communication plan
  • Project Planning: Lead project planning, and create and maintain a Project RACI matrix
  • Minutes Management: Take and distribute organized and accurate meeting minutes for all project meetings
  • Team Facilitation: Facilitate and moderate project team communications
  • Permission Modeling: Lead the definition of the Document Management system permissions model, folder structure, and the development of an InfoSec and Privacy compliance training module

16. IT Project Manager Key Accountabilities

  • Deadline Coordination: Coordinate, manage and control projects with competing deadlines
  • Plan Management: Develop and manage detailed project plans
  • Lifecycle Oversight: Manage all stages of the project lifecycle
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively engage and manage a wide range of global stakeholders at all levels and from all areas of the business
  • Delivery Assurance: Ensure that governance and control are in place to assure the quality of delivery
  • Risk Management: Identify and manage risks and issues

17. IT Project Manager Roles and Details

  • Project Oversight: Responsible for overseeing projects and ensuring they are being executed to their full potential
  • Methodology Reinforcement: Insert themselves into ground-level management to assist, redirect, or re-establish solid project methodologies to maintain the integrity of the project, and mitigate risk throughout each project(s) and their overall lifecycle
  • Process Deployment: Responsible for developing and deploying standardized project management processes, methodologies, templates, and governance/communication processes to enable the consistent, high-quality execution of IT projects across the organization and through all phases of the project life cycle
  • Excellence Leadership: Developing and leading the project management office as a ‘Center of Excellence’ that helps achieve better quality, consistency and oversight of projects across the organization
  • Standards Maintenance: Developing and maintaining project management methodologies, standards and tools
  • Stakeholder Communication: Facilitates and communicates among key stakeholders and organizational leadership
  • PMO Culture: Build the mission and vision of the Project Management Office (PMO) organization and foster a project-management-oriented culture and mindset
  • Strategic Alignment: Foster collaboration, strategic alignment, integrated planning, and execution across multiple functional areas
  • Subject Expertise: Serves as a subject matter expert for deployed project management processes and tools
  • Team Leadership: Serves as a leader and/or member of multi-functional, multi-department project teams to provide direction in the development, management, and implementation of organizational initiatives
  • Strategic Advising: Acts as a trusted strategic advisor working at all levels of the organization
  • Practice Institutionalization: Build and institutionalize Project Management best practices and adoption
  • Skill Coaching: Coaches, mentors and guides others within the organization to improve project management skills as defined by the scope, risks, potential issues and resources of projects
  • Review Conducting: Conducts regular project reviews
  • Planning Validation: Validating planning, issues and risks, schedule, and communication
  • Process Improvement: Proactively identifies process improvement opportunities and drives continuous process improvement utilizing post-project reviews with all participants/stakeholders
  • Lessons Integration: Ensures a "Lessons Learned" document is prepared for the record, or review, and then leverages those Lessons to enhance and improve future readiness in every project moving forward
  • Issue Escalation: Escalates critical issues for appropriate and timely resolution
  • Documentation Management: Prepares and maintains data, records, reports, and other project-related documentation and artifacts
  • Vendor Management: Manages various small and large vendors to ensure contract adherence and that service level agreements are being met according to the applicable contract
  • Strategic Planning: Develops short and long-term strategic plans and program objectives in alignment with the CIO and organizational missions
  • Relationship Building: Builds and maintains relationships with senior leadership and key stakeholders, and acts as a trusted advisor
  • Team Development: Leads, manages and guides the development of PMO team members
  • Quality Communication: Ensures quality and timely communication, both verbal and written, at all levels of the organization and within the community
  • Status Reporting: Prepares reports for the Chief Information Officer and Administration regarding the status of projects

18. IT Project Manager Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • Project Responsibility: Take full responsibility for the definition, documentation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects
  • Risk Assessment: Identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project
  • Plan Maintenance: Ensure that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and provide regular and accurate reports to stakeholders
  • Quality Review: Ensure Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure
  • Change Control: Manage the change control procedure, and ensure that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off
  • Team Leadership: Provide effective leadership to the project team and take appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances

19. IT Project Manager Duties and Roles

  • Program Management: Manage cross-functional / cross-country programs and projects concerning the information systems
  • Scope Alignment: Make sure the scope and objectives delivered by the programs & projects are according to business and Global requirements
  • Schedule Monitoring: Setting priorities, developing a work schedule, monitoring progress towards goals, and tracking details, data, information, and activities
  • Release Planning: Planning and managing software releases
  • Plan Management: Create and manage the project plan
  • Business Coordination: Coordinate/Manage the relationship with the Business and with the Supplier
  • Contract Management: Coordinate/manage contracting activities
  • Requirement Analysis: Analyse technical requirements received for integrating IT systems
  • Team Coordination: Coordinate/Manage the relationship with other technical teams
  • Systems Oversight: Perform project management activities for various information systems in all technology areas

20. IT Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities

  • Technology Support: Supports end-to-end technology for programs and projects
  • IT Management: Performs project management responsibilities relating to information technology implementations, upgrades, conversion and recovery
  • Execution Oversight: Role has direct and matrixed execution responsibility across all technology organizations as well as LOB Portfolio/Program Manager on the business side for delivering the program/projects
  • Project Leadership: Manages multiple projects or a single major project
  • Requirement Creation: Partners with Program and Project Managers and SMEs to create business requirements for technology solutions
  • Solution Delivery: Assists with technology estimates, manages low to moderate complexity technology solutions for projects to a full-scale deployment in a live environment
  • Timeline Communication: Manages timelines and communicates project status and has matrix management responsibility
  • Change Management: Responsible for end-to-end management and delivery of a material change for a project of high complexity across multiple departments across multiple business units
  • Team Direction: Manages, leads and directs the work efforts of resources that may be functionally aligned as part of the project and/or organizationally aligned as direct reports
  • Stream Integration: Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams to deliver the intended project solution
  • Scope Management: Manage Project Scope, Timeline and Budget/Expenses
  • Resource Alignment: Obtain and align resources to key project roles
  • Responsibility Definition: Establish clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities
  • Execution Management: Oversee/Manage/Lead project execution, integration and implementation
  • Project Contact: Acts as the primary point of contact and integration for the project
  • Programme Leadership: Acts as a Programme Manager on an interim basis

21. IT Project Manager Duties

  • Program Management: Technology project manager role managing several projects within the Architecture and Technology Transformation program
  • Lifecycle Oversight: Responsibilities include managing all aspects of a project's life cycle
  • Meeting Facilitation: Creating and facilitating a series of meetings to ensure work is progressing according to plan, identified risks and issues are being addressed, governance is followed, and project/program costs are in line with expectations
  • Milestone Structuring: Provides structure in getting work underway to establish milestones and timelines
  • Stakeholder Communication: Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services
  • Progress Tracking: Tracking the progress of all teams and ensuring the reporting accuracy and timeliness of the milestones
  • Vendor Coordination: Working with the vendor partners and other project managers or program managers within and outside the organization

22. IT Project Manager Details

  • Independent Execution: Work is accomplished through independent contributions or project work requiring advanced subject area knowledge and decision-making skills
  • Problem Solving: Solves complex issues and problems
  • Solution Perspective: Takes a broad perspective to identify solutions, and uses applicable functional knowledge and existing methodologies
  • Method Selection: Exercises judgment in selecting the best methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
  • Practice Recommendation: Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices
  • Specialized Execution: Execute highly complex or specialized projects
  • Approach Innovation: Adapts to precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions
  • Practice Leadership: Serves as a resource for best practices/quality on functional teams or projects
  • Autonomous Work: Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
  • Mentor Support: Trains, guides and mentors other professionals or colleagues with less experience
  • Procedure Definition: Determines methods and procedures for new assignments
  • Team Coordination: Coordinate activities of other personnel, lead functional teams or projects, and serve as a best practice/quality resource
  • Manufacturing Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge (depth and/or breadth of expertise) in the Manufacturing space is preferred, specifically manufacturing systems

23. IT Project Manager Responsibilities

  • Initiative Support: Responsible for supporting cross-technical product-level initiatives and the success of assigned initiatives
  • Priority Alignment: Assess priorities against business value to ensure the Program Epic Release schedule is aligned with business priorities
  • Result Optimization: Optimize results within resource and time constraints
  • Communication Facilitation: Collaborate and facilitate initiative-level communication and meetings with team members and other leaders to ensure full alignment
  • Release Planning: Define release schedules, identify dependencies, solutions to business problems, and provide updates as priorities and schedules change
  • Governance Oversight: Oversees the governance structure across the initiative teams
  • Risk Mitigation: Manage risk mitigation and contingency plans
  • Goal Achievement: Drive activities to achieve aligned goals
  • Tool Management: Ensure the appropriate release plan and status are reflected in the tool (i.e., CA Agile Central)
  • Status Presentation: Conduct presentations regarding the delivery domain product status to cross-functional IT teams and business/domain stakeholders
  • Issue Assistance: Assist junior IT team members with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems knowledge
  • Team Mentorship: Mentor the team to improve their understanding and skills

24. IT Project Manager Job Summary

  • Technology Oversight: Oversees all technology components of diverse, moderately complex IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost
  • Strategy Contribution: Contributes to the formulation of strategies for IT project leadership and other functional areas
  • Team Leadership: Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met
  • User Communication: Communicates with end-users to provide timely and accurate information and status updates
  • Issue Resolution: Applies in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues that have an impact beyond own area
  • Judgment Application: Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations
  • Result Delivery: Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through responsibility for the delivery of results and shared responsibility for budget management

25. IT Project Manager Accountabilities

  • Plan Development: Develop project plans, negotiate and prioritize schedules/timelines and scope that match both BUs’ requirements and the company’s goals
  • Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with various Business Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Teams, Business Users and Vendors during all project phases, from initial development through implementation
  • Conflict Management: Perform change/risk/conflict management throughout the entire execution
  • Problem Solving: Communicate proactively with all involved stakeholders to identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements
  • Methodology Enforcement: Instruct and ensure a unified and simple-to-follow project methodology applicable across the corporation
  • Process Improvement: Improve the planning process by learning from experience
  • Knowledge Sharing: Set up regular sharing workshops to develop IT/business knowledge of IT PMs

26. IT Project Manager Functions

  • Project Management: Provide subject matter expertise in the area of SRM and KM program planning, development, and operating strategy to include product and service catalog management.
  • Program Coordination: Develop and manage the overall project management plan and coordinate the planning and efforts of subordinate projects.
  • Team Leadership: Lead and guide the work of technical staff and serve as a liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
  • Task Structuring: Develop and manage the work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
  • Stage Planning: Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage.
  • Progress Monitoring: Monitor progress to ensure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
  • Meeting Facilitation: Lead the monthly Program Management Review (PMR) meeting.
  • Status Reporting: Prepare and deliver Monthly Status Reports (MSR) and Financial Status Reports (FSR).
  • Milestone Tracking: Provide a summary of all project milestones and their anticipated completion dates.
  • Performance Assessment: Provide an assessment of current month and future month activities and a discussion of any issues or recommendations related to contract performance or administration.
  • Gap Analysis: Conduct gap analysis of current CISA-wide operating frameworks in the areas of SRM, KM, and catalog management programs.
  • Framework Development: Establish the SRM and KM program and planning frameworks based on industry and government best practices.

27. IT Project Manager Job Description

  • Project Leadership: Act as an IT project management subject matter expert (SME) and lead the support.
  • Objective Management: Project management objectives through the definition, development, and execution of IT projects by organizational priorities.
  • Team Coordination: Select and lead cross-functional project teams and facilitate project meetings.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with key stakeholders to define the scope and requirements of assigned projects.
  • Challenge Anticipation: Anticipate internal and external business challenges.
  • Work Planning: Effectively develop detailed work breakdown structures, schedules, estimates, and resource management plans.
  • Performance Analysis: Perform need, trend, feasibility, and performance assessments to ensure business requirements are fulfilled, risks are mitigated, and value is optimized.
  • Vendor Management: Manage the integration of vendor tasks and monitor associated deliverables.
  • Performance Tracking: Track performance to operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and/or schedules.
  • Budget Compliance: Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Documentation Control: Maintain project documentation and monitor and communicate status to IT leadership and key stakeholders.
  • Employee Supervision: Indirectly coach and supervise employees and/or teams responsible for IT projects or initiatives.

28. IT Project Manager Overview

  • Requirement Analysis: Analyze and test requirements on a project-by-project basis.
  • Environment Maintenance: Maintain testing environment variables.
  • Test Planning: Write test plans and test cases for development and execution using project requirements.
  • Automation Development: Create test automation scripts to ensure product functionality continues to work as expected over time, utilizing Selenium, WebDriver, TestNG, and Spock.
  • Software Deployment: Support the deployment of software to both the customer test and production environments.
  • Risk Assessment: Conduct risk analysis and support seamless product releases.
  • Issue Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot problems within the testing environment that may impact product stability.
  • Process Improvement: Contribute to software engineering process improvement efforts across the business.

29. IT Project Manager Details and Accountabilities

  • Project Execution: Lead the development and execution of projects including project plans, defined budgets, schedules, and status reports.
  • Change Management: Assist the Manager of Tech Solutions and Architecture and the PMO Manager in developing change programs, including the delivery of training, to improve project management and effectiveness across the organization.
  • Stakeholder Governance: Responsible for leading project progress, status, and governance meetings with a range of stakeholders.
  • Team Coordination: Manage and run daily standups to ensure teams are progressing and roadblocks are identified early and removed.
  • Project Transition: Responsible for the effective handover of completed projects, including measurement of outcomes and supporting the transition of projects into business-as-usual operations for end-users.
  • Strategic Alignment: Understand the company's strategic objectives and make sure they are aligned with technical project briefs.
  • Planning Development: Work with a diverse range of stakeholders to put together comprehensive project plans, including cost estimates, ROI justifications, and business case proposals.
  • Executive Communication: Deliver presentations to executives (both technical and non-technical).
  • Performance Tracking: Set KPIs for each project and track performance against them.
  • Documentation Creation: Create project documentation.
  • Vendor Management: Manage third-party vendors.

30. IT Project Manager Tasks

  • Solution Implementation: Identifying, analyzing, and implementing technological solutions to improve existing business procedures and processes.
  • Documentation Preparation: Preparing technical, project, and process-related documentation.
  • Issue Coordination: Coordinating business and technical problem resolutions.
  • Customer Communication: Communicating effectively and providing appropriate feedback and follow-up with both internal and external customers.
  • Process Maintenance: Maintaining and improving the formal IT Project Process by generally accepted industry standards and best practices.
  • Team Leadership: Offering informal education, direction, and leadership to others in the IT department on proper project management and customer service techniques.
  • Efficiency Improvement: Determining methods of improving efficiency through the examination of business processes, policies, staffing, hardware, and software.
  • Professional Communication: Maintaining professional and accurate communication with project participants, IT staff, project clients, project sponsors, and vendors.
  • Vendor Coordination: Maintaining positive vendor relationships, coordinating and directing vendor responsibilities, and identifying cost-effective solutions for professional services.
  • Budget Management: Forecasting and managing budgets and costs.
  • Project Documentation: Creating and maintaining project workbooks and project documentation including justification and business process definitions and decisions.
  • Status Reporting: Preparing IT status reports to present during Firm IT Meetings.
  • Project Oversight: Overseeing projects through closure for success and acceptance of implemented solutions.
  • Task Management: Effectively and professionally handling multiple responsibilities and projects simultaneously.
  • Staff Coaching: Helping coach staff and project team members in project management functions and processes.

31. IT Project Manager Roles

  • Staff Coordination: Coordinating recruitment, training, and development of staff.
  • Workload Management: Maintaining adequate staffing levels and managing workloads to ensure clients are supported effectively.
  • Performance Monitoring: Monitoring the quality of the team’s performance and providing regular feedback against the agreed standards.
  • Team Development: Developing the Service Management team to continuously improve practices and procedures in the operational environment.
  • Project Prioritization: Working with the management team to prioritize projects and change.
  • Incident Support: Supporting the operations team in the resolution of incidents, including any additional communication to clients.
  • Change Documentation: Documenting client change requests, including the definition of acceptance criteria.
  • Solution Documentation: Documenting solutions for prospects and new clients.
  • Process Improvement: Identifying and implementing process improvements to benefit the client.
  • Service Review: Running regular service reviews with clients at the agreed frequency.
  • Escalation Response: Responding to clients' operational escalations.
  • Proposal Support: Supporting the Account Development Managers team with responses for RFPs and RFIs.
  • Project Assistance: Assisting the Project Team to ensure each project meets Operational Acceptance Criteria.
  • Performance Review: Regularly reviewing client or program performance with the Account Development Manager to understand key growth drivers.

32. IT Project Manager Additional Details

  • Team Leadership: Lead the team to implement, test, and deliver customer projects.
  • Client Liaison: Act as the point person on the project, fielding all client requests and concerns.
  • Team Communication: Communicate with the development team, ensuring project goals are met.
  • Project Customization: Implement customizations and configurations specific to the project.
  • Team Coordination: Coordinate all internal teams and departments to execute a seamless implementation.
  • Resource Management: Work with other project managers to determine the best utilization of resources required across multiple projects.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintain close contact with all stakeholders, ensuring all are aware of project progress.
  • KPI Tracking: Utilize KPIs to deliver the project on schedule.
  • Customer Resolution: Prioritize and resolve customer concerns.
  • Creative Innovation: Seek to foster creativity and innovation in project design and problem resolution.
  • Role Definition: Establish, define, and manage the roles of supporting team members.
  • Schedule Compliance: Ensure the project runs on schedule and within budget.
  • Quality Compliance: Remain compliant with quality management processes and training.
  • Design Assurance: Ensure design practices, test methodologies, and documentation meet project requirements.

33. IT Project Manager Essential Functions

  • Project Planning: Prepare detailed planning, including financials, resource allocation, and scheduling of milestones.
  • Reporting Framework: Implement a reporting framework to measure progress and key milestone metrics.
  • Deliverable Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet agreed timing, cost, and quality outcomes.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders both locally and internationally to maintain clear lines of communication.
  • Relationship Management: Take ownership of key relationships with external stakeholders, including vendors.
  • Risk Compliance: Ensure that all compliance, governance, and risk policies are adhered to throughout the project.
  • Team Supervision: Manage a computer technician for the Desktop Project for the HCA site.
  • Client Communication: Interface with clients and provide status updates.
  • Vendor Coordination: Act as the point of contact for vendors and tech support teams.
  • Technical Preparation: Check pre-work for laptops, including imaging, file redirection, and related setup tasks.
  • Training Support: Help orchestrate the training.
  • Project Coordination: Perform coordination of the project.
  • Deployment Planning: Create project plans for deployments.
  • User Management: Ensure the end-user shows up.

34. IT Project Manager Role Purpose

  • Project Delivery: Accountable for the delivery of projects on time, on budget, and on target.
  • Scope Facilitation: Facilitating the project team through the definition of scope, requirements, and design.
  • Documentation Management: Responsible for authoring (using input from the project team) the required project documentation, including the scope document, design document, and implementation document.
  • WBS Development: Facilitating the WBS process and translating WBS into an MS Project schedule detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity.
  • Schedule Management: Keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle and managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget.
  • Risk Tracking: Facilitating the identification of project risks and issues and tracking these through the project life cycle.
  • Testing Coordination: Coordinating customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst, on larger projects.
  • Meeting Facilitation: Scheduling, facilitating, and recapping project team meetings.
  • Issue Escalation: Responsible for the escalation of project issues and for communications of project status to all levels of management on both the customer and the I/S side.

35. IT Project Manager General Responsibilities

  • Project Oversight: Work closely with business and technology leaders to ensure assigned projects deliver on business objectives and value while managing scope, timeline, budget, and risk.
  • Project Support: Provide support and guidance for multiple business and technology-initiated projects.
  • Activity Coordination: Carry out project coordination activities.
  • Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a liaison between IT and functional owners within the enterprise and facilitate meetings with constituents.
  • Risk Mitigation: Apply project management methodologies and strategies to reduce potential project risk throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
  • Result Validation: Drive testing and acceptance of project results.
  • User Coordination: Coordinate user acceptance testing and training.
  • Risk Monitoring: Proactively monitor risks, issues, and scope, ensuring the appropriate level of priority, visibility, and escalation.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Communicate relevant components to stakeholders and project teams.

36. IT Project Manager Key Accountabilities

  • Project Leadership: Provide leadership regarding the planning and execution of small to moderate-sized projects or programs within the Business Units, including project planning and design, project execution and management, and post-project monitoring.
  • Charter Development: Develop project charters, budgets, schedules, resourcing, and required project artifacts in accordance with project management office (PMO) standards.
  • Policy Compliance: Ensure all project activities are executed in accordance with company and functional policies, procedures, and methods.
  • Document Control: Establish and manage a project document control system consistent with PMO methods and procedures.
  • Plan Review: Review all project plans with appropriate stakeholders to ensure compliance with LP’s design standards, industry and professional standards, and local, state, and federal codes and regulations.
  • Status Communication: Communicate project status to all project team members, stakeholders, and management.
  • Risk Management: Manage change control, risk and issue management, and other applicable PMO best practices.
  • Team Training: Conduct training and education for project team members and other personnel in the area of project management.
  • Process Improvement: Participate as a team member in leading functional process improvement within the company.
  • Record Maintenance: Maintain project artifacts according to PMO procedures and corporate records retention guidelines.
  • Progress Facilitation: Facilitate progress and effective communication between all groups related to the project and implement proven business practices to lead projects and improve LP’s project management methodology.
  • Analytical Application: Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of LP strategic projects and improve the execution of project-related business.

37. IT Project Manager Roles and Details

  • Project Coordination: Establish project milestones and timelines, maintain knowledge of current project status, allocate and manage resources, meet with users regularly to discuss project status and details, and regularly inform IT management.
  • Design Leadership: Lead functional and technical design team meetings and activities involving project design and project management for assigned projects.
  • Database Design: Perform technical database design.
  • Team Mentoring: Mentor assigned team members and evaluate project performance.
  • Documentation Preparation: Prepare documentation and technical specifications as directed.
  • Program Development: Develop, assist in the development, and perform analysis of new programs while preparing technical documentation in accordance with detailed specifications provided.
  • Time Estimation: Prepare accurate estimates of development time and associated costs.
  • Application Maintenance: Maintain, modify, and perform analysis on existing computer applications in accordance with detailed specifications.
  • User Support: Provide timely support to the Help Desk in responding to and resolving user issues.
  • Application Testing: Install, review, test, and train on new and existing computer applications to ensure accuracy, functionality, and fulfillment of customer expectations.

38. IT Project Manager Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • Program Development: Develop and deliver a project management program encompassing all the details of a project to the team members.
  • Innovation Management: Identify, develop, and initiate innovations and solutions where precedents and procedures may not exist.
  • Cross Collaboration: Work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes.
  • Strategic Analysis: Analyze decisions and actions to support the larger area's strategic direction.
  • Problem Resolution: Work with senior management to resolve more complex problems.
  • Group Participation: Actively participate in cross-functional groups to solve problems across projects.
  • Resource Organization: Provide resources and organizational structure to promote collaborative initiatives.
  • Information Networking: Utilize a network of relationships to collect and disseminate information, build support, and secure buy-in for desired objectives.
  • Decision Autonomy: Regularly make decisions and take independent action on matters directly affecting strategic goals.
  • Decision Guidance: Guide staff in learning and applying useful decision-making approaches.
  • Sponsor Partnership: Partner with sponsors in understanding and creating opportunities and make timely choices.
  • Leadership Direction: Provide leadership, vision, and direction for both project teams and business partners.

39. IT Project Manager Duties and Roles

  • Goal Setting: Set project goals and create plans to meet those goals.
  • Progress Monitoring: Monitor project progress continuously and prepare detailed scheduled reports on measurable items such as milestones and deliverables.
  • Time Management: Maintain project timeframes, budgeting estimates, and status reports.
  • Resource Management: Manage resources for projects, including computer equipment and employees.
  • Team Coordination: Coordinate project team members and develop schedules and individual responsibilities.
  • Strategy Implementation: Implement IT strategies that deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
  • Performance Tracking: Use project management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence.
  • Risk Assessment: Conduct risk assessments for projects.
  • Meeting Organization: Organize meetings to discuss project goals and progress.
  • Project Oversight: Oversee all aspects of any project in Lamwork’s IT department.
  • Execution Management: Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout the entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.

40. IT Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities

  • Scope Development: Work with sponsors and stakeholders to develop project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Role Definition: Define the responsibilities of parties involved in the project including stakeholders, management, project team, vendors, and internal customers affected by the project.
  • Plan Integration: Integrate project plans and schedules from multiple sources to create a cohesive plan with an identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones.
  • Schedule Management: Manage the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.
  • Dependency Tracking: Ensure that project interdependencies within the IT Project Portfolio and across other departments are considered, tracked, planned, and executed.
  • Task Oversight: Work with Team Leads to assign, schedule, review, and monitor project work to ensure progress is within expected guidelines.
  • Issue Management: Identify, track, monitor, and communicate project-related issues, scope changes, variances, and contingencies that may arise during IT project implementation.
  • Risk Adaptation: Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments throughout the project to respond to emerging requirements and risks.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintain effective communication and working relationships with project stakeholders and team members, communicating project status, progress, and issues to sponsors and upper management.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Analyze, document, and share lessons learned with Project and Team Leads.
  • Closure Documentation: Complete the project closure process and documentation, adjusting project processes and documentation per analysis at project close.
  • Project Management: Oversee overall planning, management, and completion of IT projects across various business units and programs.
  • Scope Planning: Work with stakeholders to develop project scope of work documents and project plans.
  • Deliverable Definition: Use project management skills to define project deliverables, identify resource requirements, provide reporting structures, and ensure projects are completed within budget, on time, and in scope.
  • Relationship Maintenance: Ensure effective communication and relationships between internal customers, stakeholders, sponsors, and project team members are maintained.

41. IT Project Manager Duties

  • Software Planning: Plan the entire process of software needs for clients, from determining requirements and planning implementation through to completion, ensuring all software changes are finalized successfully.
  • System Migration: Handle projects for call centers transitioning from one call center system to another, planning the full migration process from the old system to the new implementation.
  • System Expansion: Manage projects for call centers looking to expand their software systems for additional use.
  • Software Upgrade: Handle projects for clients upgrading their current software to new versions.
  • Client Support: Assist clients with follow-up questions, concerns, or issues after project completion.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Work directly with clients, vendors, and leadership.
  • WBS Management: Establish and maintain the Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and budget during the Project Concept Phase and throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Project Leadership: Lead projects such as platform installations, upgrades, migrations, and data extracts for financial or audit purposes.
  • Requirement Documentation: Work with end users on all functional modules to document business needs and requirements for upgrades and enhancements.
  • Issue Tracking: Establish, manage, and communicate processes to identify, document, escalate, and track outstanding project issues.
  • Communication Support: Support the program and project communication plans.
  • Change Management: Establish and support methods to identify, document, scope, approve, and track change requests.
  • Presentation Support: Support the development of stage review presentations in partnership with the Program Manager.

42. IT Project Manager Details

  • Project Organization: Maintain a high level of organization of project details, timelines, and resources.
  • Work Planning: Create and execute project work plans in accordance with the project's Statement of Work (SOW) and revise as needed to meet changing requirements.
  • Resource Scheduling: Identify and schedule internal and external resources to meet project plan objectives.
  • Team Management: Manage activities of project team members, ensuring completion of assigned tasks in accordance with schedule, resources, cost, performance, and quality objectives.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Meet and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate project expectations in a timely and clear manner to ensure project success.
  • Issue Resolution: Efficiently identify and solve project issues as they arise in a proactive manner.
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure all company quality documents required for the project’s deployment type are accurately completed, signed, and posted.
  • Training Coordination: Coordinate and provide training for go-live.
  • Training Planning: Plan for long-term training materials and delivery.
  • User Adoption: Promote ongoing tasks to support user adoption.
  • Metric Tracking: Track success metrics for each project.
  • Project Execution: Plan, execute, deliver, implement, train, and close Healthcare IT and system implementation projects according to specific deadlines.
  • Resource Coordination: Schedule resources and coordinate efforts of team members, third-party vendors, and customer resources to deliver projects according to plan.
  • Quality Control: Define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle, ensuring visibility and transparency into project progress.

43. IT Project Manager Responsibilities

  • Project Support: Work with the Senior IT Project Manager, supporting the CIO reporting groups to manage project scope, quality, schedule, and communication for individual projects.
  • Methodology Adherence: Consistently use standard tools and methodology.
  • Status Communication: Clearly communicate project status to effectively manage expectations throughout the process, from Product Owner to Senior Management.
  • Deliverable Management: Communicate project deliverables at all levels and ensure items are executed on time, within budget, and with high quality.
  • Requirement Coordination: Ensure requirements are gathered, distributed, and clearly communicated with the development team to meet acceptance criteria.
  • Meeting Facilitation: Coordinate meetings to initiate working sessions, resolve project issues, and provide status updates.
  • Change Control: Manage changes in project scope, including documenting and explaining implications so they are clearly understood and approved.
  • Process Analysis: Analyze business operations and methodology to develop best practices.
  • Risk Management: Ensure technical and operational risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
  • Work Integration: Manage interdependencies of work within a project.
  • Obstacle Removal: Identify and remove obstacles and impediments to ensure team objectives are met.
  • Scrum Facilitation: Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to Scrum practices.
  • Delivery Tracking: Ensure the team delivers stories that meet the definition of done and track delivery through burndown charts and other reports.
  • Velocity Tracking: Track team velocity to ensure the accuracy of future planning.
  • Backlog Management: Drive backlog grooming sessions with the team based on the Product Owner’s priorities.
  • Release Planning: Provide input to and participate in release planning.

44. IT Project Manager Job Summary

  • Schedule Management: Develop expert-level work breakdown structures, identify resource conflicts, manage schedule risks, ensure deliverable schedules are met, and provide enterprise architecture technical writing skills.
  • Project Coordination: Provide management and coordination of projects ranging in scope from a single system to Agency-wide implementation.
  • Requirement Management: Determine requirements and maintain a requirements traceability matrix.
  • Milestone Tracking: Develop detailed work breakdown schedules to track milestones, tasks, and resource allocation to meet project deadlines.
  • Documentation Compliance: Ensure all phases of the project are documented as outlined in Agency policies and processes.
  • Progress Reporting: Provide periodic in-progress reviews and weekly reports on project activities.
  • Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the point of contact for team and client stakeholders.
  • Infrastructure Management: Work with the SharePoint Team and stakeholders to ensure implementation of engineering services while managing enhancements, system security, patching, and daily SharePoint operations.
  • Engineering Leadership: Spearhead and drive engineering activities involving the design, acquisition, installation, configuration, maintenance, operation, and testing of systems.
  • Cloud Migration: Manage support efforts such as migrating the existing SharePoint infrastructure to a cloud services environment and integrating SharePoint and other software tools to enhance business management.
  • Requirement Analysis: Identify, capture, and develop users’ requirements and analysis.
  • Review Presentation: Develop and present Project Monthly Reviews (PMRs).

45. IT Project Manager Accountabilities

  • Objective Definition: Work with IT’s business partners and Business Relationship Managers to clearly define project objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project lifecycle to deliver on these objectives.
  • Scope Management: Develop, execute, and manage projects within the defined scope.
  • Lifecycle Leadership: Lead all aspects of the project lifecycle, working with project sponsors, key stakeholders, team members, and management to oversee all phases of completion.
  • Structure Management: Build and manage the project work breakdown structure, milestones, risks, issues, and deliverables within human and financial resource constraints and changing priorities to ensure successful completion.
  • Progress Monitoring: Develop a detailed project plan for each initiative and monitor and track progress against that plan.
  • Performance Measurement: Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
  • Vendor Oversight: Manage all outsourced technical support and third-party project consultants.
  • Milestone Tracking: Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure assigned projects are delivered on time, on budget, with quality, and in accordance with the Duracell Project Methodology.
  • Issue Resolution: Capture project issues, ensure clear ownership of resolutions, and track them to closure.
  • Decision Escalation: Escalate pending decisions and significant issues to project sponsors in a timely manner.
  • Point Coordination: Serve as the single point of contact for project-level questions and status updates.
  • Financial Management: Manage project financials using Excel-based models.