Product Owner

2 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa AdaptIT Full time

**Listing reference**: adapt_000171**Listing status**: Online-
**Position summary**

**Industry**:IT & Internet
- **Job category**:Education and Training**Location**:Midrand
- **Contract**:Permanent**EE position**:No**About our company**
- Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd is a subsidiary of Adapt IT Holdings Proprietary Limited and a market leader in developing specialised vertical market software and digitally-led business solutions that assist clients across targeted industries to Achieve More by improving their customer experience, core business operations, business administration and enterprise resource planning.**Introduction**Job description**

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ROLE**

**Product development roadmap**
- Responsible and accountable for the product’s success in the market.
- Responsible for roadmap with regards to products/systems within scope of control.
- Analyse user requirements (by liaising with clients and other stakeholders), market trends, and

competitors in order to maintain a “Strategic Product Roadmap” in collaboration with all stakeholders. (3 - 5-year vision of the Product).
- Identify a prioritized list of items/features to be built into the standard system. This list of items is reflected

in and is referred to as the Product Backlog; (12 - 18-month vision of the Product).
- Maintains the Product Backlog by keeping it up to date in terms of requirement and prioritization, and

ensures that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all. This should preferably be
maintained within the organization’s chosen tool;
- As above, prioritization of the product backlog should be done with consideration of operational objectives

which include:

- Strategic direction of the product;
- Revenue targets;
- Technical debt (design issues, technology changes);
- Projects;
- Innovation.
- Ensure that the highest value items are worked on by the development team.
- Evaluate current offerings saleability with Business Development and advise on functionality to be
discontinued.
- Monitor and report on statutory compliance (such as taxation
- and labour legislation, occupational safety

regulations) of systems within scope of control.
- Collaborate with other POs with regards to the integration between all systems.
- Ensure that strategic and operational goals are met maintaining the correct balance between annuity and

client funded work (LSD, Projects)
- Division Budget Targets
- SWT Enhancement development**Evaluation and prioritization of system enhancements**
- Evaluate requested / suggested system enhancements, features and functionality in terms of the strategic

direction of the system, saleability and benefit end users.
- Prioritize requested system enhancements, features and functionality into a prioritized product and sprint

backlog.
- Perform the role of Product Owner as defined by the official Scrum Guide (available here) within the Scrum

framework.
- Liaise and communicate with Adapt IT Education (e.g. Business Development, etc.) with regards to

requirements and prioritization on all cross-BU projects (significant customer development, product
development, etc.).
- Be available to answer questions from and provide any clarifications to the development team regarding

items on the product and/or sprint backlog.**Implementations and software development projects**
- Evaluation of VoR, BPM or Gap Analysis outcomes and advise on the high-level design of system set-ups,

business processes or software modifications to meet client business requirements.
- Participate in internal workshops to design solutions for functional requirements where required.
- Provide input to and verification of technical specifications, test plans, manual changes and quotations (for

client funded development).
- Assess the impact of implementing a design on the system as well as on Adapt IT Education Division

resources and put forward recommendations.
- Sign off on quotations for data updates and/or development for systems within scope of control.
- Approval of all functionality / bug fixes / technology conversions / ATOVs / data changes /etc. released /

deployed within a build for systems within scope of control (Builds).
- Approval of software distribution to customers test and/or production systems as per customer

agreements (Software Releases, i.e. crelease).
- Interface with multiple stakeholders internally and externally.

**Verification and software documentation**
- Sign-ff on reviewed documentation, release note, user manuals and training manuals as prepared by the

team.**Product support**
- Sign-ff on reviewed documentation, release note, user manuals and training manuals as prepared by the

team.**Mentorship / Training**
- Provide mentorship and guidance to internal staff on technical and system processes.
- Perform internal training for technical staff as required.
- Ability to mentor and assist others, and to lead internal training sessions
- Mentor resources on specialized k

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