Product Manager

Project Manager (PM) (aka Scrum Master in Scrum termiology) Duties:

1. Responsible for managing the overall progress of one of the 50 GVCS machines.
2. Produces a development timeline, strategy, and budget for the project for review by the Projects Director.
3. Follows up with team members on a regular basis to maintain progress, morale, and rapport throughout the development team.
4. Follows up with CAD development and commits files to the design repository.
5. Blogs on a weekly basis to provide development updates to the greater community.
6. Engages in a weekly strategy/progress meeting with Projects Director.
7. Recruits documenters to produce instructionals, master PDFs, Connexions documentation material, and other indispensable project outputs.
8. Blogs updates and milestones on Factor e Farm Blog and feeds any required blog material to Factor e Farm Blogger
9. Reports directly to Projects Director.
10. Arranges for product testing and documents results. This person may collaborate directly with the Factor e Farm Director for the purpose of testing.
11. Maintains an open, daily log of all relevant activity, including links to performance results obtained in field testing. This includes maintaining logs of expenditures on financial transparency wiki pages.

• This is a management role, where the Manager works with the successful bidding prototyper/designer (or volunteer) to manage the workflow of development.
• PM shall blog or co-blog on the Factor e Farm Blog regarding updates
• PM shall moderate or co-moderate the corresponding Technical Development Forum for the project
• PM shall work with a Documentor for the project to produce instructional videos, as delineated in the Instructional_Page_Template