Responsibilities:
The Product Owner oversees the customers and agile team. Own the team backlog, serve as a bridge between the Agile team and Product Management, Customers, Business Owners and other stakeholders. The PO build, edit, maintain and prioritize work to meet ART and Business Objectives. Aligning with technical architects to understand and provide feedback to ensure stories meet Acceptance Criteria and done.
Areas of Accountability
•Value Maximization, ensuring data quality for business KPI tracking
•Stakeholder Engagement
•Product Roadmap, ensuring data quality in Aha
•Feature & Roadmap Sequencing: Collaborate with Development team, SM and stakeholders to plan and sequence product releases, including decision to defer or adjust scope of releases
•Product Backlog Prioritization and Management
•User Story Definition, Acceptance & Validation
•Sprint Planning & Sprint Review
•Decision Making: Make timely and informed decisions regarding product features, priorities, and trade-offs, considering customer value, technical feasibility, and business goals
•Continuous Improvement: Continuously gather customer feedback and analyze product performance to identify opportunities for improvement and inform future iterations
•Team Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the Development team, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of product requirements, foster collaboration, and remove impediments
Areas of Responsibility:
•Customer Advocacy
•Align Product Strategy to execution
•Requirements Management & Backlog Refinement
•Collaboration Facilitation
•Risk Management
•Quality Assurance
•Metrics & Reporting
•Customer Engagement
Areas of Consultation
•Unplanned work needs a prioritization/trade-off decision
•Point of escalation for product impediments
•Skill gaps with Agile team
•Clarification on user stories
•Architectural, coding, compliance standards
•Technical dependencies
Out of Scope:
•Making decisions on how the team does the work
•Assigning work to the team