Product Owner

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Dimension Data Full time
Functieomschrijving

The Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team and is responsible for defining stories and prioritising the team backlog in order to simplify the execution of the program priorities. Within Dimension Data, they are also responsible for the conceptual and technical integrity of the features aswell as the systems and process operational integrity.

The Product Owner role spans the lifecycle of a Product, from Minimum Viable Product (MVP), through to the retiring of a product. They work closely with Product Management, Service Delivery, Service Architecture and Platform Delivery in order to deliver on their mandate.

The Product Owner maintains a key responsibility towards Quality Control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories completed.

They operate as the content authority at a Team level and work towards optimising the return on investment (ROI) by ensuring the Scrum Team members are engaged in delivering the most valuable product features.

The Product Owner within Dimension Data's application of the role will also be responsible for the operational aspects of a Product lifecycle, through to Retirement of the product. They will work closely with the Operational teams and GTM Product Managers to ensure the continual optimization of the product to improve operations and product profitability.

Responsibilities

Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders

Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on

Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the offer/product

Fully understand the product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to enable onward articulation into the development team

Drive pilot clients through the transition process

Assist the transition team with any gaps in enabling new capabilities and features

Assess value, prioritise backlog items based on this value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning meeting and refined during the PI, to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with the offer/product strategy

Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

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

Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionality/capability

Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and iteration goals

Establish story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline

Ongoing operational ownership of the Product post MVP completion

Capture and maintain Service Delivery capabilities

Establish a continual engagement with the GTM and Operational teams

Build out dashboards and product optimization strategie

Requirements Qualifications

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager

Certification

Implementing & Leading SAFe

Technical qualification/ certification or

experience related to Product

Knowledge and skills

Applicable knowledge of the technologies

and portfolio of offers used by the team

Deep knowledge and understanding of the

systems and processes that a product is enabled through

Demonstrable knowledge of product

development in an ICT industry

Strong knowledge of SAFe's practices and

its application/operation

Strong communication aptitude, with an

innate ability to say "no" in a way that will not discourage or upset the

business

Effective conflict resolver

Effective escalator

Team empowerer – through strong

collaboration and knowledge brokering

Understand fundamentals of iterative

development

Understand fundamentals of product/

software development processes and procedures

Understand the value of commitments to

delivery made by a development team

Understand incremental delivery and the

value of metrics

Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics,

velocity, and task definition

Be able to relate to, and integrate with

alternate development methodologies (e.g. waterfall

Be conversant in DevOps practises and

understand strong relationship and bi-directional dependency required with

deployment teams

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