Product Owner

The PO creates a product roadmap and defines the product vision for his or her team, driven by the overall strategy. He or she builds close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team's effort is aligned with the overall strategy. The PO works closely with his or her team to ensure that business value and user feedback is translated into new functionality when needed

Managing the product

• Owns the product vision and detailed product requirements; makes sure they are complete, integral and consistent
• Proposes the scope for MVPs/releases taking into account existing resource constraints and sustained development of the product. Ultimately accountable for the scope
• Accountable for the results of the sprint demonstration
• Gets consulted about all the key BAU decisions

Managing the delivery

• Owns the release plan and product backlog and continuously keeps it up to date
• Makes sure the Squad correctly understands the requirements
• Supports the Scrum master (SM) on the squads ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, reviews and retros.
• Manages delivery dependencies on other squads by taking part in the PO sync and other cross-squad ceremonies
• Provides input and gives product perspective on any risks and dependencies on control functions. Responsible for coordinating the grooming of the stories once he/she gets the requirements

Tracking progress and developing the team

• Monitors the product and operational / delivery KPIs that ultimately shape the performance against strategic KPIs of the whole squad
• Together with the Chapter leads, defines the necessary competencies and staffing in the Squad and obtains it via QBR
• Participates in squad members’ reviews together with their chapter leads

Typical skills, and background

1. Excellent interpersonal skills

• Strong leader and team player
• Great communicator with facility to integrate and align diverse stakeholders
• Non-hierarchical and collaborative, has transparency and trust in squads

2. Product management and technology understanding

• Deep understanding of product management across the lifecycle
• Ability to create compelling offerings towards customers, act as “voice of the customer”
• Good sense of technical concepts and processes
• Experimental agile mindset to drive innovation (Test & Learn) and MVP thinking

3. Solid business acumen

• Understanding of the core levers of the business
• Experience and proven knowledge in relevant field/product/customer segment