Product Owner

1 week ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Dimension Data Full time

Do you want to work on a team with amazing people? Do you want to reach an elite level in your profession and make a real impact on the lives of others? We are looking for a Product Owner with these qualities.

Product Owners (POs) is the content authority for the team level of the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFe). The PO is responsible for the team backlog, writing, prioritizing and accepting user stories, and representing the customer to the Agile team. They optimize return on investment by ensuring that the Scrum team members are engaged in delivering the most valuable product features. They play the role of team member responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog.

This role is responsible for streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components the team is responsible for. They have a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done.

The role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management to prepare for Program Backlog, participating in Agile Release Train (ART) Synch meetings, and cooperating to deliver Solution value.

**Requirements**:

- Provide vision and direction 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
- Assess value, prioritize backlog items based on this value, time and other 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 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 expectations for delivery of new functionality/capability
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and Iteration goals
- Drive iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
- Establish story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline
- Research and analyze the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Follow our competitors and the industry
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum/SAFe best practices and new trends, and seek to relentlessly improve the operation of the Product Owner role

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
- Minimum of 3 -5 years work experience in a similar role
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager Certification
- Implementing & Leading SAFe
- Other SAFe certifications (e.g. SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe for Teams, SAFe DevOps, etc.)
- Professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or certified scrum product owner (CSPO)
- Program Management Professional (PgMP) or equivalent certification advantageous
- Demonstrable planning experience
- Relevant Agile coaching experience
- Experience working in Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams and product roadmaps


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