Sr Product Owner

2 weeks ago

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States University of Massachusetts Medical School Full time

Overview:

GENERAL SUMMARY OF POSITION:
Under the direction of the Manager Scrum Practice or designee, the Sr.

Product Owner is a project's key stakeholder responsible for supporting information technology products and delivery at the UMass Medical School.

The Sr. Product Owner

(PO) is responsible to work with Engineering to visualize and deliver the product. The Sr. PO will represent the voice of the customer and the vision of the product throughout the products development. The overall responsibility of this position is to ensure that products address customer requirements, and to work with both clients and scrum teams to set appropriate expectations regarding delivery time line and costs. The product owner will adhere to UMMS's scrum framework guidelines, with the goal of ensuring quality deliverables that achieve customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Visualize and deliver information systems solutions in attainment of the Medical School's strategic and tactical business plans

Develop, adapt, and facilitate scrum framework including backlog through all sprints of product release phases

Lead and Communicate the release plan for the product

Educate scrum teams, other product owners, clients and support staffs on scrum best practice

Work directly with Best Practice leader to create and manage Scrum Framework for entire scrum staff


Actively engage with other product owners and scrum masters in the in developing a comprehensive strategy around the development of IT products and services.

Lead the acquisition of related software, products, and services as needed by clients

Work with Core Team Lead, Product Managers, Service, Support and key technical resources to identify stories to be added to the backlog

Order and manage the backlog of user stories and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable for the development teams

Plan, coordinate, and document product related development activities of large scale and highly visible projects that will vary in scope and affected business units

Facilitate communication of the sprint and release deliveries, budget, costs, issues, and related information to same

Consider which activities will produce the most business value including making tough decisions during sprint planning

Develop and maintain an effective relationship with the product's steering committee, sponsor(s), customer(s), functional managers, and project teams as appropriate


Communicate with all appropriate parties to ensure that the product's objectives, scope, and expected deliverables of each project phase are understood.

Motivate the scrum team with clear, elevating goals

Drive to a sustainable maximum velocity. Work with development teams to address questions I concerns during sprints

Engage with development to commit backlog items to sprint deliverables (negotiate on what gets put in each iteration)

Support "Post-Live" retrospectives of releases to review whether the delivery met expectations and to identify potential areas for improvement. Documents results of retrospective and recommendations

Advocate for and manage the value of the product release at the team level

Perform other duties as required

Qualifications:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or information management technology, or equivalent experience

6 year of Information Technology experience

4 years of experience working as primary product owner for agile/scrum teams

Flexibility to partner with and negotiate with various personality types at all levels within and outside the organization

Ability to build effective leadership skills and ability to listen, communicate and motivate teams to achieve results

Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle many (5 +) products and customers concurrently

Ability to delegate effectively. Established track record of delivering on commitments

Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively with IT staff, clients, executive leadership and vendors

Demonstrated knowledge of current and available scrum tracking tools such as Team Foundation Services and other supporting tools

Ability to lead and direct scrum teams, sprint planning meetings, and client review sessions

Product level understanding the needs of users, their market place, the competition and of future trends for the domain or type of system being developed

Possess positive attitude and creativity in generating solutions

Passionate understanding of customer needs as it relates to the product development

Ability to travel to off-site locations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Scrum Product Owner certification

Experience implementing 3rd party business applications

Experience managing large enterprise projects highly desirable

Experience in higher education

Experience in health and medical services automation

Additional Information:
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