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Product Owner

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Job Description

Product Owner

As a product owner, you will have deep understanding and experience of driving and owning product development principles and processes. Experience in Agile methodologies is a core requirement and you must be detail oriented with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management. The Product Owner will ensure that the products meet the business requirements set out by the Product Manager.

Work as the Product Owner for your assigned Product, and work hand in hand with the development sprint team. Use Agile best practices to ensure that we are able to meet the development requirements of customers.  Be available to give expert guidance to team members where needed. You will be working with our Enterprise Asset Management software product.

Requires interface with customers and other team members. May involve travel to customer sites.

 

Role Objectives

·       Translate the overall strategic direction, as provided by the product manager, to enable and drive the execution and delivery that is to be performed by R&D.
ie. Be responsible for ‘what’ outputs the R&D team must deliver, and any specific constraints they need to be aware of regarding ‘how’ it is to be delivered.

·       Be responsible at a functional and technical level, for the mission critical solutions offered by Aptean, providing advice to consulting teams and partners on how to maximise the value achieved from our solutions.

·       Work with R&D to ensure we have a robust, supportable product, maintained with a ‘Definition of Done’ appropriate for a Tier 1 Enterprise solution.

 

Role Responsibilities

·       Lead the organisation to create functional requirements documentation, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Management and Engineering teams, utilizing resource from the consulting teams, and other partners as required.

·       Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable stories.  

·       Aid in and conduct user acceptance testing of the delivered User Stories

·       Collaborates with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making ensuring we are leveraging feature/functionalities available from Aptean Common Tech, technologies used in the platform, and other relevant technologies.

·       Highly available to technical team during iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories

·       Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team

·       Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value and ROI

·       Manages and maintains efficient flow of just-in-time story elaboration activities (user story refinement) throughout team execution, typically maintaining 2 iterations (sprints) worth user stories available and ready in team backlog.

·       Prioritize and refine backlog based on Product Roadmap

·       Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

·       Provides demo back to the Product Management team at the end of each sprint, ensuring the sprint met expectations. 

·       Strong knowledge of Agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies and tools

·       Strong understanding of the different backgrounds, responsibilities and expectations of team. Ability to use that understanding to share information appropriately and with the correct people.

·       Collaborating with other product owners in managing dependencies, working in a SCALE agile (SAFe)  manner

·       Review QA Test strategy and test cases to ensure they align to functional and non-functional requirements.

·       Interface with documentation writers when needed

 

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