Product Owner: 1 Year Ftc

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Isilumko Staffing Full time

**Product Owner: Investments l Savings: 1 year FTC**

Serve the end-user, customer or stakeholders of the product and act as a bridge between customer and scrum team.

**Key Focus Areas**:

- Manage the scope and move through iterations.
- Assist the Scrum Master to organize Sprint Review Meetings.
- Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner.
- Provide guidance in mitigating impediments impacting the completion of Release/ Sprint Goals.
- Develop and maintain, prioritize, and manage backlog of user stories for implementation.
- Write user stories.
- Create and maintain the Product Backlog according to business value or ROI.
- Prioritize the features in the Backlog before Sprint and set Sprint goals.
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams.
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product.
- Develop product pricing and positioning strategies.
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
- Build and follow a roadmap.
- Provide insights into the user test cases and arrange product testing groups.
- Define feature acceptance criteria and test cases.
- Manage the user acceptance testing process.
- Track progress in a running system, proven to work by passing repeatable tests.
- Drive product launch.
- Build and maintain product awareness on all levels among product teams.
- Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap.
- Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.
- Plan releases and upgrades and Review solution design plans.
- Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
- Declare the business priority of every user story.
- Substitute functionality and change priorities.
- Manage the development teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints.
- Ensure the team focus on behavior and outcomes that drive customer value.
- Communicate the Business Requirements to the team.
- Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases.
- Ensure understanding of the customer experience.
- Analyze preferences and requests of end users.
- Refine the agile methodology based on results and client feedback.
- Communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflicting interests between key stakeholders.
- Represent customer needs and priorities to the team.
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
- Facilitate demos and customer feedback sessions.
- Conduct Sprint planning and resource estimation.
- Prioritize processes and activities.
- Participate in the promotion plan development.
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements.
- Coordinate with other Agile team leaders.
- Provide status updates for business leadership.
- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
- Follow competitors and the industry and keep track of industry trends.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values.
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- 6 to 10 years product and Agile experience
- Maintained Productive Working Relationships
- Managed work deliverables
- Managed work processes
- Collaborating and networking with stakeholders
- Developing multiple creative solutions in terms of a Great Place to work.
- Facilitate Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem.
- Networking and building business relationships.
- Relationship and interpersonal skills in working with IT vendors across the entire contract life cycle.
- Working on large; complex; multi-disciplinary projects
- IT Practices and Industry Knowledge
- Awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Knowledge of specific technology.
- Business Acumen l Internal Business Products and Processes
- Business analysis l User stories Multiple IT products l Product design
- Specific IT products knowledge l Behavioural Competencies

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