QP110 / Product Owners – Several positions

Product Owners have a key role in the success of product delivery in the Agile release train. They need to understand features, responsible for creating and understanding backlog items and be able to scope, descope and make priority decisions.

They bridge the gap between business and technology to create efficient solutions. They are responsible for maximizing overall value delivered by the agile team and they work together with their agile team to deliver their committed objectives for each PI and to ensure a working solution.

Reporting to: Product & Req. Chapter Lead Key responsibilities Understand banks strategic initiatives, by closely working with Product Management, to help deliver products that helps the Bank in achieving the desired objectives

• Help to drive product development to build end-to-end solutions with a team of dedicated engineers and designers
• Serve as a Product owner within an agile team or teams
• Responsible for creating and understanding user stories and acceptance criteria
• Own, maintain and prioritize the team backlog
• Understand and provide input to the Product Roadmap
• Hold the Product Vision and articulate it and the Product Roadmap to the agile team
• Use rapid cycles to iterate and learn
• Build trust and effective relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Understand pain points and problems and address them in a timely fashion.
• Defines and owns the agile team’s Backlog (scope, priorities) in JIRA
• Contributes to the program scope by collaborating with Product Managers, Business

Analysts, Architects, agile team’s and other Product Owners

• Manages team scope by collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, agile team’s and other Product Owners
• Define the sprint goals and drive the sprint backlog creation with the team
• Review and accept delivered stories
• Co-define Definition of Done together with the agile team
• Interact with 3rd parties with regards to technical integrations and support of the same
• Prioritizes between bug fixes
• Participates in agile ceremonies
• Prepares for PI Planning from team perspective
• Keeps track of progress for ongoing PI Planning, from scope perspective

Key competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Unafraid to make decisions
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to weigh pros and cons and arrive at a reasoned decision
• Team player; ability to interface and build relations at all levels
• Translate requirements between the customer facing teams and the development organization
• Ability to contribute to multiple initiatives across the digital organization
• Stakeholder management
• Understands Lean-Agile values and principles and understanding of SAFe framework