Project Manager

Dotcom Software was established in 2011 and is an award-winning leading software and IT consulting business in South Africa. We provide exceptional software design and development services to our clients. Whether you need a custom developed solution, a special skill set for a one-time project, or you want to enhance your in-house IT team on an ongoing basis, the talented technology professionals at Dotcom Software are fully prepared to meet your needs.

We are currently on the hunt for a talented Project Manager.

Job Description

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and add value to project and customers. Align within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.
• Give structure to workshops and meetings to help lead and facilitate the team’s agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization teams/Agile, i.e. “closing the loop” and “getting things done”.
• Assessing the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency. A key part of this will be finding a way to show the current status/performance of the team.
• Supporting the Business Product Owner, especially with respect to the process of grooming the product backlog. Pointing data quality issues out, and facilitating them being fixed – arriving at more mature stories will be key.
• Assist with project- and team coordination tasks when needed.

Qualifications

• Matric
• IT Diploma or Degree
• Project Management course.
• Agile project management certificate will be an advantage
• Scrum Master course will be an advantage

Project Manager duties

Managing software development project individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and. responding to change over following a plan.

Communicating between team members about evolving requirements and planning. Coaching team members on delivering results. Handling administrative tasks such as conducting meetings, facilitating collaboration, and eliminating hurdles affecting project progress.

Soft Skills

1. Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver development solutions for approval.
2. Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design and development.
3. Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
4. Be passionate about all thing’s code and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
5. Interacting well with others since teamwork is common.
6. Exhibiting a commitment to lifelong learning since technology is always changing.
7. Thinking outside the box to solve problems creatively.
8. Communicating effectively so that all involved understand what is being done.
9. Appreciation for clean and well documented code.
10. A meticulous and organized approach to work.
11. A logical, analytical, and creative approach to problem-solving.
12. A thorough, detail-oriented work style.