Experience Level: 13+ years
Note: Only locals in GA (3 days in a week).
Domain: Telecom industry is must
- Sr Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team
- 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.
- 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 Sr 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.
- The Sr 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 Sr PO supports a single Agile (Scrum), but often supports multiple teams as part of complex initiatives.
- The Sr 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 Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program) Backlog,
- to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).
- The Sr PO also coordinates with other POs to align backlogs to complete large, cross-functional initiatives.
- In addition, the Sr PO mentors other Product Owners to ensure they are growing in their career and job acumen.
