Product Owners

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T-Mobile is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for all. Product Owners is located in Frisco, TX will develop deep understanding of customer experience, especially at a tactical and transaction level.

Telecommuting is permitted, but applicant must work from the worksite location at least 3-4 days per week. No additional national or international travel is anticipated.

• Build and maintain Agile (Scrum / Sprint) team backlog, with input from customer, Product Manager, System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders (team backlog consists mostly of user stories, it also includes defects and enablers).
• Collaborate with Agile team and stakeholders to write user stories and requirements that include acceptance criteria and acceptance tests, typically for 1 or 2 (max) Agile / Scrum teams.
• Review and prioritize Agile Team backlog for Iteration (Sprint) Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners (PO).
• Review and assess enabler work, understand scope of the upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technical infrastructures that will host the new business functionality. Ultimately determining where, when and priority of enabler work so that it can be included in sequence in Team backlog(s).
• Serve as primary resource (and source of truth/single point of contact) to Technical (Dev) team and Customer team for user story details. Highly available to technical team during iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories.
• Manage and maintain efficient flow of just-in-time story elaboration activities (user story refinement) throughout team execution, typically maintaining 2 iterations (sprints) worth user stories available and ready in team backlog.
• Participate in team demo with primary responsibility of reviewing and accepting completed user stories (PO is the only team member who can accept as done). This includes validation that stories meet acceptance criteria and meets team’s Definition of Done (DoD).
• Participate in Iteration Retrospective, where teams gather to improve their processes. Also actively supports the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.
• Oversee the PI system demo, which is part of the I&A workshop. The PO has an instrumental role in producing the Plant Information (PI) system demo for program stakeholders ensuring representation of user stories within PO’s scope.
• Coordinate user story, functional, and technical dependencies with other Product Owners throughout each iteration and Program Increment. This is often done in weekly PO/ART sync meetings.
• Work across Agile teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase velocity and quality of the program.
• Takes ownership of user story quality and performance in production environment.
• Develop positive working relationships with Customer groups or Customer Representatives.
• Collaborate and develop positive working relationships with technical and non-technical teams, including sales, commercial accounting, marketing, legal, go-to-market, and finance. Works with outside partners and other third parties.
• Develop professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; review professional publications; establish personal networks; participate in professional societies.
• Actively participate in T-Mobile Product Owner/Manager Community of Practice (COP).