3. Expert Product Owner

Lot 3: Expert external consultancy services in the field of information systems

Nature of the tasks

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.

• Typically supervises several business analysts.

• Possesses an in depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.

• Interacts and validates requirements with the business

• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in- depth understanding of a specific business domain (see skills).

• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment.

• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.

• Is involved in the decision making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.

• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).

• Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.

• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.

• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.

• Develops and maintains standards for testing.

• Provides progress reporting.

• Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.

• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.

• May perform the role of Scrum master.

Education EQF 7 any degree

Specific expertise

• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user and technologies Information Systems.

• Experience in Agile.

• Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).

• Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.

Certification and/or Standards

Mandatory certification (one of) :

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO),

• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO),

• SAFe Product Owner or equivalent.

Optional certifications:

• ITIL certification above ITIL foundation or equivalent).

• Project management certification such as Prince2, PM² or equivalent

Skills

• Rapid self-starting capability.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Excellent knowledge broker.

• Delegation and decision making skills.

On-call services foreseen for this profile : No