Product Owner

Published date: April 15, 2024, Version: 1.0

Overview:

The Product Owner is the member of the team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog so as to streamline the execution of ART priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the s or components for which the Agile squad is responsible.

Product Owner Skills

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Build, edit, and maintain the team backlog.

  • Prioritize backlog items basis user value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI/BRP planning event

  • Review and reprioritize the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.

  • Communicate story detail and priorities and ensure the agile squad aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan

  • Work with the agile squad to agree on accepted story completion. This includes validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its Definition of Done (DoD).

  • Collaborate with the agile squad and any other stakeholders in the team demo.

  • Attend weekly PO sync meetings to coordinate dependencies with other POs and ensure frequent, reliable, and continuous release of value-added solutions

Secondary Responsibilities:

  • Understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and assist System and Solution Architects in decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.

  • Participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes

Technical Skills :

  • Agile / SAFe

  • Agile Tools and Methodologies

  • Project Cost & Budgeting i.e., CapEx/ OpEx Budgeting

  • DevOps Practices (high level)

  • Requirements Gathering

  • Business Analysis

Soft Skills:

  • Stakeholder Management

  • User Experience

  • Product Vision

  • Requirement gathering

  • Vendor Management

Tool Skills:

  • SharePoint

  • Jira/Jira Align

  • Powerpoint

  • Reporting Tools (PowerBI, Tableau etc.)

  • Confluence

  • MS Azure DevOps