Product Owner - GIB/GIS Evolve
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Role Summary
The Product Owner (PO) owns and manages the product backlog, refining requirements, and ensuring product development efforts deliver maximum value to the business and end-users. The role bridges the gap between business needs and the development team, contributing to clear prioritization, stakeholder collaboration, and successful product delivery throughout the agile lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Backlog & Requirements Management
- Maintain a transparent, prioritized, and continuously refined product backlog.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and users to gather requirements, translating them into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Ensure backlog items meet the principles: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
Prioritization & Planning
- Assist in prioritizing user stories based on business value, customer needs, and technical constraints.
- Participate in backlog refinement sessions and sprint planning to ensure alignment with release goals and capacity.
Agile Delivery Support
- Actively engage in agile ceremonies — stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Provide clarity to the development team on requirements and priorities.
- Monitor sprint progress and help resolve blockers related to requirements or priorities.
Acceptance Criteria & Validation
- Collaborate with the development team to define acceptance criteria for all user stories.
- Participate in sprint reviews to validate completed stories against agreed criteria.
Release & Documentation Support
- Assist in release planning by documenting confirmed features, known issues, and upcoming priorities.
- Ensure release documentation is accurate and available for stakeholders.
- Understand CI/CD principles to support efficient deployment cycles.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team to gather feedback and clarify requirements.
- Support product demos and provide updates on product progress.
Continuous Learning & Improvement
- Proactively develop skills in agile product management practices, tools, and domain knowledge.
- Seek opportunities to optimize processes for better delivery outcomes.
Behavioral Competencies
- Teamwork & Communication: Values collaboration and promotes transparency across teams.
- Curiosity & Passion: Seeks continuous improvement in self and team performance.
- Accountability & Professionalism: Takes ownership of tasks and outcomes.
- Customer Focus: Always considers business and end-user impact in decision-making.
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