Product Owner

About the Role :

Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Technical Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and is the single point of contact to the Dev team and Customer team for user story details. PO is responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing the Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team.

In this capacity the PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. PO also drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two functions are critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / productivity in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a PO supports a single Agile (Scrum) Team up to a maximum of 2 teams.

PO also has a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Technical Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program / Portfolio / Platform) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).

What You will Do :

Business and Technical Execution :

• Develop deep understanding of customer / user experience at a tactical and transactional level
• Build and maintain Agile (Scrum / Sprint) team backlog
• Write and refine user stories and requirements including acceptance criteria and tests
• Review and prioritize team backlog for iteration planning
• Coordinate and resolve dependencies with other Product Owners, domain POCs, UI / UX
• Review and assess enabler work and collaborate with System Architects
• Accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet the Definition of Done
• Serve as single point of contact for technical and customer / user teams during sprints
• Maintain 2 sprints of ready work via ongoing story elaboration
• Participate in demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt workshops
• Manage and groom testable, production-quality user stories
• Support PI planning and PI system demo execution
• Drive improvement stories to increase velocity and quality
• Run PO sync meetings in larger scaled ARTs
• Support Technical Product Manager with product vision and roadmap
• Collaborate with Scrum Master to prioritize the Scrum backlog to maximize throughput of a sprint.
• Create and review L3 diagrams, Swaggers, API documentation for system integrations.
• Drive Low Level Design / Domain Level Design for platform features
• Review Test Cases and support testing teams during domain / system and night of release
• Conduct Platform Level Demos with Stakeholders
• Participate and Drive, Release Activities during Night / Day of Release

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