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Vacancy No: LH9620
Product Owner - Software
Location: Bristol
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Essential:
A highly technical, creative problem solver and excellent communicator.
Degree or equivalent in a business or IT related discipline or equivalent professional experience in a software development environment
Solid previous Product Owner experience
In depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile software development
Outstanding written and oral communication skills
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Strong attention to detail
In addition, it would be desirable to have:
Experience working in a SAFe environment
Experience working with offshore and/or outsourced development teams
Healthcare domain experience and understanding of healthcare IT solutions and operations
The Role
Work in an Agile Development Team, taking ownership of the team backlog and priorities and driving sprint planning to deliver maximum value into the product within the constraints of the team capacity and the Program Increment Objectives. You will collaborate with Product Management in the definition of overall product vision and establishing Program Increment Objectives for your areas of responsibility. The role is office based co-located with the Agile Team but may involve occasional travel as required to meet the needs of the business.
Develop product expertise in your areas of responsibility such that you can act as the go to expert within the development organization from a planning and priority perspective.
Manage the Agile Team level Backlog to ensure a well-defined and prioritized pipeline of work items is available for each sprint planning session.
This will include:
o Act as gatekeeper for accepting requirements and defects onto the backlog from Deployment, Support, Product Management, Release Management and the Agile Team.
o Where required, ensure that sufficient functional design and other required collateral has been produced in support of requirements transferred from Program level
o Ensure UX design standards are appropriately applied to UI development
o Break down larger EPICs, Features and User Stories into User Stories sized appropriately for development requirements (small enough to complete within a sprint)
o Prioritize work items on the backlog on an ongoing basis to ensure an ordered backlog is available for sprint planning
o Collaborate with the Agile Team to ensure all work items on the backlog have suitable effort estimates
o Ensure a balance aligned with SAFe recommendations and current company strategy is maintained on the backlog regarding new features, bugfixes and technical debt.
o Help ensure all user stories have sufficient acceptance criteria defined to enable development and from which test cases can be derived
o Work with Scrum Master(s) to drive sprint delivery and protect the Agile Team and the sprint plan from un-necessary changes and interruptions.
o Monitor 3rd line support issues, escalating calls to 4th line where applicable.
o Collaborate with Product Management to define the vision for the product(s) and module(s) within your areas of responsibility.
o Influence colleagues in Product Management on areas of potential product improvements.
o Contribute to the multi-functional project team in planning the scope and schedule for releases and defining the associated Program Increment Objectives.
o Timely and accurate reporting of assigned work status as required by your Manager, reporting risks and issues as they arise.
o Achieve agreed productivity targets to ensure tasks are delivered to schedule, reporting as early as possible to team Management where deliverables cannot be met.
o Work with the Agile team to achieve excellent levels of product quality
o Work with the Agile team to produce any required documentation and training materials for the product(s) within your areas of responsibility.
o Liaise with the offshore development teams to ensure that requirements are fully understood, accepted and delivered to the standards expected by customers.
The Company
This is an opportunity to work with one of the first companies in the world to bring the power of cloud, mobile and social networking to healthcare organisations. Producing products that change how and when communication happens within healthcare, improving efficiency and ultimately saving lives.
Working with NHS hospitals where technology provides real time delivery of clinical information to care teams and then enables instant conversation, leading to faster treatment.
Provided is a close knit, collaborative culture, where individuals can make a real difference.
Wilde Associates are working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
