Hire Project Manager — delivery leadership that ships on time
When you hire a project manager, you buy predictability: planned sprints, tracked risks, and vendors held to their commitments. I bring 15+ years of shipping software across 6 countries to your team — running ceremonies, maintaining RAID logs, and coordinating developers, designers, and vendors so releases land on schedule instead of slipping quarter after quarter.
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I'm Omer Muneer Qazi, a Dubai-based Fractional CTO & Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience and 100+ projects delivered across 6 countries. I run delivery for clients through my 'Hire page — book a call via 'contact to scope your project.
Project management deliverables
Sprint plan & delivery roadmap
A week-by-week sprint plan with milestones, dependencies, and owners, so every stakeholder knows what ships when. I re-forecast at each sprint boundary to keep timelines honest and visible.
RAID log & risk register
Risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies tracked in one living RAID log, reviewed every sprint. Blockers get owners and dates instead of drifting, so surprises shrink and stakeholders always know what threatens the timeline.
Sprint ceremonies, run properly
Planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives facilitated with discipline — not calendar theater. Ceremonies stay short, decisions get recorded, and action items are followed up before the next session, keeping momentum week after week.
Vendor & dependency coordination
Third-party vendors, APIs, and integrations coordinated against your milestones. I chase status, unblock dependencies, and hold external teams to agreed dates, so one late vendor never quietly derails your whole release.
Honest status reporting
Weekly status updates that say what shipped, what slipped, and why — with revised forecasts, not green dashboards hiding red reality. You get one clear view of progress, risks, and next steps every week.
Release & deployment coordination
Cutover checklists, rollback plans, and launch-day coordination across teams. I sequence deployments, confirm QA sign-off, and run the go-live war room so releases happen calmly instead of as midnight firefights.
From kickoff to shipped, in four steps
A structured engagement with no surprises — you’ll always know what’s happening and what’s next.
Delivery audit
I review your backlog, team, vendors, and timeline in week one, flag the real risks — not the polite ones — and give you a written schedule assessment.
Plan & commit
We lock a sprint plan with milestones, owners, and dates the team commits to. Vendors confirm their slots, dependencies get sequenced, and done is defined before work starts.
Run the machine
Ceremonies run, the RAID log stays current, vendors get chased, and weekly reports go out. I keep the team unblocked and the timeline honest until the release ships.
Ship & hand over
Release coordination, a handover document, and a retro on fixes for next time. You keep the RAID log, roadmap, and cadence — the system stays after I leave.
Why hire a project manager through a fractional CTO?
Most project managers report status; I diagnose delivery. Fifteen years across Phaedra Solutions, Integriti, Napollo, Nabidios, Nello, and EverestX taught me how timelines break — vague scope, silent vendors, untested dependencies. When you hire a project manager from me, you get technical judgment behind every forecast, so estimates survive reality.
Dubai-based and working worldwide across time zones, I join your standups, read your code-adjacent risks, and tell you the truth early — when it is still cheap to fix.
Project manager hiring FAQs
How fast can a project manager start?
Typically one to two weeks: I audit delivery in week one, lock the plan by week two, and take over ceremonies immediately.
Do you work with our existing team or bring your own?
I work with your existing team — developers, designers, vendors stay. My job is a working delivery system: clear plans, real ceremonies, and a RAID log keeping everyone aligned.
What tools do you use for project tracking?
Jira, Linear, Asana, or whatever your team uses — I adapt to your stack. Discipline matters more than the tool: updated boards, honest estimates, and visible blockers.
Can you rescue a project that is already late?
Yes — late projects are where a strong PM earns their keep. I re-baseline the plan, cut scope to shippable, renegotiate vendor dates, and install weekly reporting so leadership sees progress, not surprises.
Do you manage fixed-price vendor contracts?
I coordinate vendors against milestones and hold them to dates, but I do not sign or renegotiate contracts for you. You keep commercial control; I keep delivery accountability and flag contract risks early.
Ship your next release on time
Tell me about your team, timeline, and vendors. I will reply with a delivery audit plan and a start date.
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