Serve as the product-focused business analyst driving backlog creation, iteration planning, user story elaboration, and ART/Agile execution. Collaborate with product managers and dev teams to define roadmap, prioritize features, lead scrum ceremonies, mitigate impediments, and demonstrate milestones. Provide market and competitor analysis, author product requirements, mentor team members, and ensure solutions align with product vision.
Responsibilities
- Gathering the requirements from the product manager and build the product backlog items.
- Expertise in ART methodology.
- Collocating with product managers and define the road map.
- Lead/Drive the technology solution related activities with the team and ensure its future proof considering the product vision roadmap.
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
- Feature/User Story sizing and prioritizing to align with product vision.
- Work closely with the development team to ensure the business goal is clearly communicated.
- Effective communication between Development team and the product team.
- Lead all scrum ceremonies and ensure the team is unblocked to complete the work on time.
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Demonstrate the milestones achievement to the product team stakeholders for early feedback.
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.
- Peer project reviews and ensure the project is being executed as per the program plan, identify if any risk and provide mitigation plan to fix the same.
- Mentoring team members with required skills and process and groom them to next level.
- Conducting periodic knowledge sharing session to empower everyone in the team to perform to their fullest potential.
- Guide the team on ideation, Market Analysis, Competitor Analysis, Product Roadmap definition, Roadmap Checkpoints, MVP and usability requirements.
Domain Expertise
- Extensive experience with data analytics, forecasting, and business case development
- Expertise in the product development process and extensive experience bringing products and services from ideation to fruition by authoring product requirement documents, conducting market trials, aligning key resources, and managing large scale IT development programs.
- Steadfast work ethic with a proven track record that demonstrates accountability, creativity, and the initiative to achieve organizational goals.
Photon Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
11 East Adams Street Suite 1100, Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
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