Product Owner Job in Salford Quays, North West UK

The role of the Product Owner is an integral part of the scrum team in Agile methodology and holds and expresses the overall vision for the product under development and through to delivery or deployment. The role takes on two key aspects, one being an outward looking one, representing the voice of the customer, shaping the product vision and seeing it through to implementation, secondly representing the stakeholder needs and explaining them to the team and an inward looking, day to day view to rank and prioritise business needs and requirements and ultimately to determine acceptance of the developed product.

 

Key Responsibilities

·        Constructing, owning and promoting the overall product vision.

·        Defining the features of the product via the user stories in the product backlog, setting the development schedule by prioritising the product backlog and grooming the product backlog to constantly reflect the current prioritisation and prepare for upcoming sprint activity

·        Owning one set of stories to drive development and eliminating confusion from differing business opinions or stakeholders, working with the project team to estimate items on the product backlog by providing clarification of stories

·        Accepting or rejecting work results delivered in sprints, contributing to all requirements, design and review sessions e.g. “show tell” etc

·        Communicating with other business users, other product owners or “proxy” product owners, involving them as needed and gaining their agreement where applicable.

·        Should NOT act as a scrum master or adopt this role in an Agile context, as there may be conflict of interest. 

·        Ensuring the business area they are representing is ready and prepared for any changes to products/systems or process changes, signing off any training material for the business area they are representing. Analysing business processes to identify alternative solutions, assess feasibility and recommend new approaches via utilisation of the Model Office support area.

·        Providing the “acceptance criteria” of completed products, stories or features where appropriate

·        Supporting with the realisation of business benefits of any defined changes. Working with business stakeholders to agree and prioritise order of development projects in plan through; business ideas/3YP and Change Requests

·        Working with the FLSS team and /or defect manager to prioritise production issues or defects. Prioritising defects during the testing and development of the project lifecycle, and agreeing and signing off defects that have a business workaround in place. 

·        Playing an active role in supporting the project manager in the development of the Business case through; defining objectives and requirements, conducting feasibility studies, producing business models and defining business benefits to be realised. Supporting CR development with any feasibility information or relevant business information required

 

Specific Skills

·        Educated to at least A level standard or equivalent.

·        Numerate and analytical capability.

·        Previous experience of managing teams within a customer/user focused environment.

·        Experience of managing budgets and establishing target in cost management.

·        Experience of managing complex multi functional service delivery operations.

·        Experience of business processes and systems within own business unit.