Responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of a software development or systems integration project. Responsible for directing and supervising project development, by the requirements of the client. In charge of managing and tracking scope, schedule, costs, and quality on a day-to-day basis for large-sized projects. A Senior Project Leader should be able to identify issues, detect unstated assumptions, resolve interpersonal conflicts, as well as use systematic management skills. This position usually requires 10 13 years of relevant experience.
- Understand and verify the functional Requirements of the software.
- Understand the non-functional Requirements of the software.
- Agree with systems analysts on the different methodologies of requirements gathering and analysis.
- Determine the existence of any conflicts within the Requirements of the software.
- Ensure the commitment of the development team to the requirements.
- Refer to the Requirements’ Owner in case any changes are needed in the requirements due to technical issues to ensure that the change has no negative impacts on the customer from the business perspective.
- Perform risk assessment on the requirements
- Agree with the systems analyst on requirements priorities and dependencies.
- Could validate the requirements to ensure stakeholders' needs and expectations, ex. prototypes could be used.
- Ensure proper understanding and review of requirements document by stakeholders.
- Ensure proper understanding of Change requests by stakeholders and communicate with a client when needed.
- Is responsible for defining and controlling the scope of the project.
- Own the project deliverables, i.e. Requirements specs, design document, schedule, code, etc.
- Review unit test cases and make sure the developers’ understanding of the requirements is correct.
- Ensure that the product integration procedure follows the established project schedule, and acceptance criteria that are defined in the testing plan
- Review design and design documents to ensure compliance with the client's requirements and internal systems.
- Review make-buy-reuse analysis (DAR).
- Conduct a meeting with the graphics team to arrange for the requested Graphic Design job and verify output with requirements.
- Has a direct impact on customer retention through on-time high-quality project delivery.
- Manage the relationship between project cost and deliverables to maximize delivered customer value.
- Add customer value through understanding the customer business domain and nature.
- complement re-estimates if the projects’ requirements are changed due to incompletion, ambiguity, etc.
- Receive a change request from the client, document the issues, and ensure clear understanding with the client of the Change Request (CR) through meetings, emails, etc.
- Meet with the Change Control Board (CCB) defined in the Project Plan document to evaluate the Change Request issue(s), to determine the feasibility and impact on the project.
- Perform sizing for Change Request according to its requirements.
- Identify risks that would affect the external commitments with the client.
- Send the CR Effort Estimate to the SDM and EM to review, then to the client for approval before proceeding with implementation.
- Identify Project Team Structure and Allocate Needed Resources.
- Review project plans, activities, and work products (project plans, prototypes, test cases, QE measurement reports, project code, user manual and guide, etc) for their consistency with the requirements of the project.
- Update project plans and work products resulting from changes or additions to the requirements baseline.
- Track the progress of the project by updating project plans and schedules.
- Make use of the DAR process for resolving issues faced in the project.
- Track the status of testing activities, through the reports submitted by QE and through meetings between them.
- Update task status on Changepoint.
- Hold a Closure meeting with all team members and stakeholders to discuss and analyze what went right or wrong, and to produce final views, reports, and lessons learned.
- Update CV at project closure.
- Ensure that team members update their skills and CVs with the skills learned in the project.
- Understand and adhere to the organization’s processes.
- Use the organizational templates.
- Check organizational guidelines and use them as needed.
- Use the Practices checklist to verify the requirements according to the same/similar practice if applicable, ex. BI
- Review the testing checklist and testing documents.
- Responsible for quality audit reviews and project conformance.
- Ensure conformance to quality