Agile Product Owner L1

Role Purpose

Customer representative for the Product features, roadmap and evaluation of the product; Complete owner of the Product from Wipro’s side

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Do

1. Review the complete Function requirement document with the Architect and the team

• Gain complete understanding of the function requirements through review meetings and other discussions
• Bring the team upto speed w.r.t the requirements and provide the right direction; clarify any queries that may come up
• In case the team has a different point of view, work towards ironing out any differences between the team and the architect for effective resolution
• Assist the solution architect in preparing the Function requirement document; the Approve the final epics in the document and ensure they are in line with the requirement and expectations
• Explain and communicate all the intricacies in the final document to the team and ensure that every team member is on the same page

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2. Backlog grooming & scope agreement

• Read and understand the document which is to be signed off or already signed off
• Enable the team to assess, analyze and understand the deliverables and the development criteria
• Usually, backlog grooming happens three weeks before the sprint starts
• Work with various stakeholders to iron out any differences or lack of clarity among various stakeholders
• Regularly interface with the product and project management; continuously groom the backlogs based on the feedback

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3. Epics breakdown to user stories and writing acceptance criteria; Epics breakdown should be broken to user stories in such a way that the product is created in incremental steps (user stories should be meaningful and deliverable)

• Breaking down the bigger task into smaller user stories such that each user story is deliverable
• Ensure that the acceptance criteria is defined properly
• Ensure that the user stories cover all the aspects of the feature like verification, requirement of real note (all the pre-requisites)
• Agreeing on the story point with the team

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4. Reviewing and approving Demos (which team gives as part of the work)

• Validate the acceptance criteria
• Anticipate any potential pitfalls from the customer viewpoint and take measures to correct the same
• Ensure the quality is as per the agreed standards
• Make sure that all the documents are verified including any changes that were required to be done by the team as part of the demo