Position: Agile Project Manager
Company: Forte Group
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

Forte Group is looking for an Agile PM to join our client which is an e-commerce marketplace business platform.

**About Client**
Our client is an e-commerce marketplace business platform providing end-to-end customer and business user experience in the domain of selling lab-grown diamonds. Their business started in 2017 by a team of diamond industry ‘veterans’ who know the industry to its core and on a mission to improve the diamond shopping experience. They are contributing with quality and passion, so customers can feel good about the diamonds they purchase now and forever.

**What you are**
The Agile Project Manager is an accountable Agile Coach and Scrum Master, responsible for forming and coaching 2x cross-functional feature teams and 1x small test automation team located in East Europe to continuously deliver with high productivity through the application of agile concepts and principles.

An Agile Project Manager is responsible for managing the agile workflow, facilitating cadenced events, assuring critical documentation and timelines are in place to achieve predictable releases and performing release management activities through all phases of engineering a product.

As an Agile Project Manager, you will work closely with the Product Management team, Engineering Manager, and CTO at the customer site. At the Forte site, besides day-to-day work with 2x feature teams, you will be working with the HR and Resource Management departments.

**What you are not**
As an Agile Project Manager, you **should not**:
● Fundamentally change sprint backlog once it has begun - clarification is ok, but Product Backlog should be owned by the Product Management team
● Determine “how” something should be implemented - this is an engineers accountability to come up with technical solutions, lead by the Engineering Manager and CTO
● Estimate tasks - this is a feature team’s accountability to provide jointly concluded opinion on effort estimation
● Make promises to stakeholders or users about what will be delivered - you can do it only when it is confirmed by the team

 **Principal Accountability. Aid Self-Organization**
● Track and organize the goals, action items, and impediments to support the team’s accountable deliverables
● Aid collaboration between team and PO so the backlog is refined and stories are broken down, tasked, and have good acceptance criteria
● Keep the team’s attitude constructive – constantly asking for an outward display of willingness
● Hold team members accountable by assuring they display ownership in tasks 
● Coach team members on cross-functional collaboration and working towards achieving goals 
● Monitor the team’s health through retrospectives and daily communication 
● Continually keep the team directionally sound by reminding them of the release/sprint mission

**Principal Accountability. Maintain Flow**
● Enable the team to achieve predictable high-quality deliverables, holding the team accountable for their work, & removing obstacles
● Keep the team applying lean concepts (pull processing, minimum value, what vs. how concepts)
● Manage change as it occurs, and its facilitate effects on the team
● Make the team think about “right” and “right now” before making a decision
● Assist the Product Owner in keeping the backlog refined & separating “what” from “how”
● Remove impediments to team progress, including managing escalating situations
● Aid in the removal of team-to-team dependencies
● Show the team how to “swarm” to bottlenecks effectively

**Principal Accountability. Radiate Information **
● Plan and facilitate powerful meetings (planning, daily, refinement, demo, reviews, and retros)
● Gather and report on agile metrics relevant to the team (burn down/burn-up, team velocity)
● Assist with task board management to ensure stories/tasks reflect the real state of the sprint
● Bring transparency to the complexity of tasks through “shark fin” techniques
● Prepare and distribute timely updates and follow-ups to minimize outstanding risks

**Principal Accountability. Be the Culture  **
● Acts as a Servant Leader – garner respect from your team and be willing to get your hands dirty 
● Communicative and social – talk with the teams frankly about challenges/successes 
● Facilitative – be prepared to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to the team 
● Assertive – ensure agile principles are adhered to and be the voice of reason and authority
● Enthusiastic – be excited about team goals
● Continual Improvement – proactively look for ways to work more efficiently
● Conflict Resolution – facilitate discussion and alternatives when conflict arises
● Attitude of transparency – disclose (to stakeholders) the state of development to build trust

**We offer:**
● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
● Opportunities for self-realization working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Social and corporate events
● Possibility for career development
● Participation in professional trainings, meetups
● Medical & family care programs
● Various sport activities coverage
● Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during working year
● Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher
● Comfortable and fully equipped workplace