Description
Plan, initiate, and manage IT projects using Agile or Waterfall. Lead cross-functional technical teams and align business goals with technical execution. Serve as the primary liaison between stakeholders and engineering. Define project phases, assess business impacts, and control scope, schedule, budget, and quality to meet targets.
- • Conduct IT project risk assessments and mitigation plans.
- • Deliver project outputs to defined quality standards.
- • Monitor team performance and provide documented feedback.
- • Partner with project staff to identify and resolve issues.
- • Gather and prioritize customer requirements through direct outreach and research.
- • Plan, schedule, and facilitate IT project meetings and ceremonies.
- • Track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
- • Negotiate with stakeholders and suppliers for resources and terms.
- • Approve and control changes to project scope, schedule, and budget.
- • Evaluate and select vendors or consultants.
- • Create and execute the project communication plan.
- • Forecast and secure initial and supplemental project resources.
- • Direct day-to-day activities of project personnel.
- • Build implementation plans with cost-benefit and ROI analyses.
- • Coordinate recruiting or selection of project team members.
- • Develop and manage IT project budgets.
- • Define and assign roles, responsibilities, and authority.
- • Produce status reports with metrics, insights, and trends.
- • Oversee execution to maintain scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
- • Develop and maintain project plans, including objectives, technology, requirements, timelines, funding, and staffing.
- • Build and manage the work breakdown structure (WBS).
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
