Sr Product Owner - Microsoft Dynamics

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The Senior Product Owner (SPO) serves as a member of the Agile Team(s) and is responsible for many facets of the teams' workload including collaboration, intake, elaboration of multiple features (3+), business value and prioritization. The SPO is accountable for creating and grooming the backlog, working with business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and ensuring the criteria is met once the story is completed.

The Senior Product Owner works with Leadership, Business and Agile teams to maximize the value of the work being performed in any given sprint. This integral position is also responsible for aiding in the development and growth of strong partner relationships with key business stakeholders and driving adoption of capabilities to increase business unit satisfaction.

The Senior Product Owner function understands and represents the "voice of the customer" internally by communicating and overseeing the prioritization of work across the multiple Agile Development teams within its purview. In maintaining the backlog, the Senior Product Owner will ensure that the teams are working on stories that deliver against the product vision, maximize business value, and deliver necessary functionality to customers.

This role represents a key Agile function as the Senior Product Owner is responsible for guiding the Development teams in understanding the business need, value, and success criteria for each prioritized initiative, managing the backlog, and serving as point of contact coordination of testing and Sprint Reviews.

The SPO is also responsible for driving the adoption of Agile internally and externally within the organization. This includes being a champion of Agile to cultivate continuous improvement, as well as being a thought leader and looking for opportunities to grow in Agile maturity.

This role also must possess leadership qualities that will be utilized to mentor junior team members. The role influences others in IT by driving the delivery of features forward and is sought out for their expertise. This role is expected to support and expand a culture of operational excellence.

• Manage the Sprint Backlog
• Define the product backlog and work with business stakeholders to create and clarify actionable user stories for the development team as needed
• Groom the work in the backlog in collaboration with the Planning Manager and the Agile Development Team
• Understand and maintain relative prioritization and guide the Development team when priorities change
• In partnership with the Release Train Engineer, ensure all sprint backlog stories have defined business need, value, MVP, acceptance criteria, story points and tasks to support the Development team
• Work with assigned team(s) to hold sprint planning, define sprint goals, direct focus and prepare for sprint review
• Manage intake of sprint interruptions, including understanding of need, value, item priority and relative priority of committed work

• Coordinate with business owners and Dev team to set expectations, commit and deliver

• Value Delivery in each Sprint
• Drive to completion multiple features (3+) during any one quarter
• Interact with customers and stakeholders to elaborate and understand needs in current user stories
• Respond to teams' questions about requirements or assist in the facilitation of requirement feedback
• Clarify user stories, product vision and specification
• Collaborate with teams daily to ensure the goals of the sprint are met
• Evaluate completed user stories to ensure the acceptance criteria is met prior to delivering to business stakeholders
• Accept or reject iteration results

• Testing
• Serve as a point of contact for testing requests for the development team
• Work to anticipate testing needs during a given sprint
• Coordinate testing completion based on priority and team capacity

• PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review
• Assist in quarterly planning activities, support the assigned development team in preparing for and engaging in quarterly planning, and facilitate communication and tracking of assigned features
• Facilitate agile team ceremonies
• Prepare sprint backlog ahead of sprint planning and lead the Development team in creation of and focus on sprint goals
• Coordinate sprint review with other agile development teams to ensure involvement and alignment across all EDS agile teams
• Assist team with the presentation of value delivered in the sprint. Anticipate the appropriate level of detail needed and likely questions

• IT Influence/Leadership:
• Be a champion of Agile in growing the maturity of Agile across the organization
• Provide leadership by modeling excellence in high productivity, strong work ethic, and positive interaction with others
• Act as a thought leader and look for…