IT Project Manager - Hartford, CT

Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Hartford, CT
Position Type: Contract to Hire
Work Status: US Citizen/Green Card
Rate: DOE (W2 Only)

What is the specific title of the position?

• Product Owner for the Configuration Management workstream
• Specific role within the agile/scrum methodology in use on the Polaris Program
  
  What Project/Projects will the candidate be working on while on assignment?
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  Is this person a sole contributor or part of a team?
• Part of a team
  If so, please describe the team? (Name of team, size of team, etc.)
• Configuration Management workstream team, 6-8 people, some business, some IT, working as part of a scrum development team with defined scope of work to be delivered
  
  What are the top 5-10 responsibilities for this position?
  (Please be detailed as to what the candidate is expected to do or complete on a daily basis)
• Execution, Management and Reporting
• Practical understanding of Scrum principles and practices
• Partners with Scrum Master in supporting Scrum Framework
• Shares and decomposes Features into user stories (non-technical)
• Develop a deep understanding of the customer and product needs
• Works closely with Product Manager to represent capabilities and features at team level
• Ensures traceability between PRD to Features to user stories
• Review of test cases against user stories acceptance criteria
• Periodically re-prioritize the Product Backlog based on customer feedback, market changes and business priority as communicated by the Product Manager
• Formally accepts the user stories once all acceptance criteria are met and demo-ed
• Actively participates in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and project team s release planning sessions
• Access-able for the team to answer questions, and during Sprint planning sessions, and Daily Scrum.
• Owns the continual acceptance criteria for business value story user stories, which is Demo-ed by the team
  
  Guidance
• Understanding of customer's business and product in order to write effective business value user story in support of feature delivery
• Product Owner must be available daily to work with the development teams
  
  What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities?
• Familiarity with scrum/agile techniques
• Familiarity with Rally - basic agile management tool
  
  What skills/attributes are a must have?
• Agile Product Owner experience
• Healthcare background/experience
• Systems Analyst/Business Analyst
• Scrum Master/PM
• Negotiation skills
  
  What skills/attributes are nice to have?
• Some IT experience
  
  Where is the work to be performed?
  (Please list preferred Health Care Company facility, if other please specify i.e. remote work, rural, etc.)
• CT- Hartford
  
  What are the work hours? (ex. 9am-5pm, day/night shifts, rotating shifts, etc)
• Basic business hours
  
  What type of interview process is preferred? (Face to face, phone, Skype, or a combination of the three)
• Face to face is most ideal, but video or phone is acceptable