Product Manager

Role:

Will guide and support all over-arching ”Inception to delivery” requirement functions. This ranges from engagement with Epics/features to ensure NFR’s and maintains scope throughout the roadmap. 

Responsibilities:

• Engagement begins during Feature Definition & Approach state
• Engaged for Epics with Front End impacts
• Participates with PODs during project scope and approach definition
• Reviews AB, Features and other artifacts provided by POD’s; collaborates with AM EO to understand, refactor and refine Features as necessary including Feature Acceptance Criteria
• Ensures applicable non-functional requirements are included
• Creates the Front End Application Design documents (FAD)
• Creates Enabler Features when necessary (e.g. multiple impacts to an API/service)
• Identifies Feature Dependencies within a single Epic and Epic to Epic (documented in Rally)
• Provides Feature sizing/estimation
• Ensures Features correctly reflect roadmap guidance with regards to scope, priority, sequence and delivery date targets in Rally
• Summarize PI Solution Objectives for development teams
• Determines when Features are Ready for Team assignment based on Exit Policies (incl. updating State in Rally)
• When applicable, provides solution alternative’s to review with sponsors/stakeholders
• Collaborates with RTE in roadmap/planning
• Collaborates with UX/UI design team 

Skills:

• Coordination between multiple teams
• Expert communicator- knows how to communicate ideas and can negotiate.
• Critical thinker
• Team player
• Technical conversations

Knowledge:

• Technical knowledge, enough to write technical requirements (Features).
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Best practices in writing stories
• Kanban for tracking feature maturity

 Minimum experience:

• As a product owner/product manager with component teams
• Writing technical requirements
• PO/PM in PI Planning environment (SAFe)
• Rally 

It’s a plus if:

• SAFe certifications (SA, SPC, SP, SSM, SASM, etc)
• SAFe POPM certification