Product Owner role is a techno-business role whom require a good understanding of both the banking business and how solutions are built.
Part of the product owner responsibilities is to have a vision of what business wanted to build, convey that vision to the team, to guide the entire squad along with the SM towards successful achievement of the squad goals and ensuring the squad are building a great product for business and customers.
**Specifically, Product Owners are expected**:
To understand the "Big Picture" of the Objectives and goals and be able to do the required analysis to break down the solution into valuable pieces of work or User stories
To maintain the focus on objective of the squad and to deliver and help prioritize the product backlog the same for every sprint
To ensure that the planned stories are completely analyzed, with all details required and are ready to be presented to the team during the planning session for sprint sign-up
To answer any question that my co-squad members would have with regards the story being discussed or under development.
Showcasing the deliverables of a sprint to the relevant stakeholders for sign off during sprint review
To truthfully reflect the business priority and objective during planning and analysis
**Knowledge of other Agile approaches**: XP, Kanban.
**Awareness and experience in several Agile practices**: User Stories, Product backlog, MVP, Release Planning, inception, retrospective, ATDD etc
Project management role in planning, developing and executing strategy for multiple projects, able to transition from high level strategic thinking to creative and detailed execution.
Sound business and financial knowledge, responsible for resources allocation, including finances, during development.
This includes making decisions based on the best return on investment (ROI) and understanding the cost and benefit when prioritizing the backlog
Stakeholder Management, Proactive and Excellent both for communication and interpersonal skill, able to effectively communicate problems and solutions to the different party (team, user and customer)
Work with the other roles to help with prioritization and facilitation of various discussions and problem solving sessions, able to
Passionate about customers and always bring questions back to what will serve them best.