Product Owner (SC Active required)

Description:

Principal Accountabilities

Incorporate feature requests into a product roadmap
Review and prioritise backlog
Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
Set sprint goals
Write acceptance tests
Plan releases and upgrades
Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
Analyse preferences and requests of end users
Refine our agile methodology based on results and client feedback
Keep track of industry trends

Complexity, Planning And Time Spans

Management of own workload and time.
Coordinating delivery dates
Tracking and monitoring of Development work
Reviewing, collating, maintaining and highlighting changes to agreed feature requests
Identifying, assessing and reporting product risks and issues, engaging with internal and external contacts where necessary
Maintaining financial controls and systems for recording, monitoring, forecasting and budgeting development expenditure and resources
Organising and facilitating release closures, as well as ensuring release notes and user guides are available at release
Maintaining and communicating product management standards and best practices
Assisting in the maintenance, reviewing, and improving of departmental and product management office policies and procedures
Producing weekly and monthly performance/status reports for the IT SLT and Stakeholders

Difficulties And Demands Of The Role

Balancing the changing demands of the business
Ensuring all elements of the product development are aligned to meet tight and demanding deadlines.
Understanding and keeping on top of all the work that is going on across the business to ensure all work is aligned and doesn't' conflict.
Strong organisation skills and management of time and information gathering skills.
Clear understanding of the systems and a clear understanding of what needs to be delivered.

Typical Decisions Made By The Jobholder

How best to implement a request and what impact it has on delivery.
How to prioritise and weigh demands of requests from business based on impact and urgency.
When a serious issue will delay the product release significantly or increase costs
Where a major change in approach needs to be followed that will impact other teams working

Facts And Figures

Detail the main variables against which the role will be measured. These variables can include sales targets, costs, profits, turnover, etc.

Success will be measured successful by continued product development completed on time and on budget.

Principal Measures

Quality of project and request completion
Delivery of client agreed commitments
Uptake of IT developments within the business.
Amount of Re-work IT Development that needs to be undertook.GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy