Product Owner

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Job description

Innova Solutions is immediately hiring a Product Owner

Position type: Full-time - Contract

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Newport News VA 23607 (Hybrid)

As a Product Owner, you will:

Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework.

Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs.

Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements.

Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story.

Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization.

Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream.

Education:

5 Years with Bachelor of Science degree in related field; 3 years of relevant professional experience with a master's degree; 0 years with a PhD

Required:

Facilitating communication between team members and stakeholders.

Analyzing incoming service requests from customers and determining the priority and complexity of the requests

Reviewing the requests, clarifying any vague areas with the customers, and then deciding which Kanban board the request cards should be placed

Monitoring the flow of requests through the Kanban boards and ensuring service level agreements are met

Working to smooth workflow and removing any blockers

Prioritizing the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and risk

Ensuring that the team has a clear understanding of the work items and their respective priorities

Maintains a ready feature backlog

Provides oversight and acts as an escalation point

Orchestrates work across Kanban team

Full breakdown of project key activities and PBI assignment to delivery teams.

Understand and speak to the metrics for the service level and what they mean.

Understand how to make meaningful decisions based on service level metrics.

Manage service roadmap for 24 to 36 months

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