Description:
The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining Stories and prioritising the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of business priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. The PO works with stakeholders to identify and organise the steps required for the next iteration. The PO will then meet with their team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support the sprint. The PO makes sure all parties are informed about what is going on, when it’s going to happen, and how it’s going to impact them.
Key Responsibilities
Collaboration with business stakeholders
Collaborates with all business stakeholders to arrive at the vision, goals, priorities and business objectives Spends time in business units to ensure understanding and alignment of business needs and direction Crafts the definition of Ready and Done with the team Builds trust with business to make decisions around the product Works with business stakeholders at their need for level of detail and involvement Facilitates collaboration between the right stakeholders to ensure sound decision making
Defining the Product Vision, Goals, and Measurement (collaborative process)
Brings together and takes ownership of the product vision and communicate this to the team Maps out customer journeys, business processes and their associated performance metrics Determines Business objectives Identify product domain boundaries and grow relevant product domain knowledge Ensure product build is in line with systems architecture Negotiates and takes ownership of product goals Measures the inherent and commercial value created by the product over time, especially after deployments Ensures alignment between all business stakeholders and IT in vision and goals
Managing the Product Backlog
Calculates/understands the value and risk of items and manages this accordingly Prioritises the product backlog in order of value, risk or business importance in collaboration / consultation with business owners / stakeholders and the development team Ensures the backlog is visible to all stakeholders Actively involved in product backlog refinement (With entire team and at times business) Actively creates clarity to the level required (based on context of the team) and leverages the team to create clarity too Guides and ensures clarity at least 2 sprints ahead of time for the sprints Balances the conflicting needs of all stakeholders across the business product owners, IT and any other stakeholders Negotiates change requests when required within ...