Product Owner

Company: Haiti-Now (Ayiti Now Corp)
Location: Miami
Posted on: October 17, 2020

Job Description:

Job brief: The Product Owner is a member of the team from the product perspective. Together, PO and the team are responsible and accountable to deliver the right product, made in the right way. Responsibilities of the Product Owner role: Product vision. Strategy for product development and delivery. Cooperation and communication with teams,stakeholders and product users. Description of the users, with the help of value proposition canvas and personas. Close collaboration with development team(s). Identification of the business value used for prioritization. Identification of business themes that product should support in given time. Management of requirements. Break down of requirements (features, epics, user stories). Assures that team understands requirements with help of acceptance criteria. Setting up an order of requirements. Backlog management in Trello. Roadmaps and releases. Provides feedback to the team. The product owner approves deliverables. Facilitates sprint review Challenges for Product Owner: Providing enough details for requirements. Inconsistent requirements. Not targeting the vision. No sprint goal. Not participating actively in the backlog grooming and preparation of sprints. Not thinking in larger timeboxes product increments (3-4 sprints). Product strategy not aligned with customer, team, and other stakeholders. Missing qualitative communication with either the team or stakeholders. Activities not coordinated with Project Manager/ ScrumMaster. Product owner does not connect the team & clients. Support responsibilities for stakeholder and development team environments: In the current sprint, Product Ownerhelps to solve product risks, answer questions from the team and stakeholders and accepts requirements implemented by the team. In parallel, he/she provides details for requirements prepared for the next sprint with a project manager, team lead and team members and anybody else who can be helpful to get requirements ready. In parallel, the next version is planned. The next Minimum Viable Product is discussed with key stakeholders, customers, and selected users. Product Owner desired capabilities/ Requirements: Leader / motivator. Effective communication with stakeholders and team. Able to specify product strategy and describe requirements. Knowledge of the business. Product Owner experience. Business analytics experience. Project management fundamentals. Must volunteer 7 hours/week

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