Agile Business

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Network Recruitment Full time

Job Purpose Summary:
The individual will operate within an outcomes-focused, agile environment, collaborating across a technology-centric product set. Emphasizing a design-led approach, experience working with designers is crucial. The ideal candidate will be highly productive and motivated as well as creative, adept at structuring features and stories logically across projects and business initiatives. Familiarity with Azure, Azure Devops, O365, and Microsoft technologies is advantageous. The role spans from strategic epic-level work to user stories and functional acceptance testing, aligning across multiple stakeholders. Collaboration within a team and independent work capability are both essential.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

  • Requirements elicitation
  • Structuring epics, features, and stories in collaboration with experience designers and developers
  • Identifying and implementing product and process improvements
  • Staying updated on trends impacting clients and the market
  • Articulating business value
  • Ownership of requirements from concept to client value
  • Collaborating with stakeholders
  • Backlog prioritization, elaboration, and grooming
  • Operationalization of products
  • Creating long-running supporting documentation
  • Structuring rules based on attributes for a flexible and expandable product

Key Measures & Expected Outcomes:
  • Achievement of value-adding working software
  • Team goal attainment
  • Consistent delivery against committed outcomes in quality requirements
  • Client value delivery
  • Enablement of delivery teams
  • Continuous improvement

Key Relationships:
  • Designers
  • Product owners
  • Channel owners
  • Architects and developers
  • Clients

Knowledge:
  • Agile development and requirements techniques
  • Design techniques and collaboration with designers
  • Rules-based analysis
  • Story writing
  • Acceptance testing
  • SQL
  • Solution design
  • Horizon planning in agile

Skills Required:
  • Excellent communication
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem-solving and strategic thinking
  • Systems thinking
  • Analytical aptitude
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Risk management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage client expectations
  • Managing and navigating uncertainty
  • Teamwork
  • Resilience
  • Ability to manage ambiguity

Qualifications Required:
  • Matric / Grade 12.
  • Agile techniques are required, with product owner experience being advantageous.
  • Accreditation/certifications in product ownership and agile analysis are beneficial.

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