Your mission
- Define and Prioritize the Product Backlog: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, which includes all features, enhancements, bug fixes, and technical tasks. You keep the backlog up to date, clearly define items, and prioritize them based on business value, customer needs, and development capacity.
- Collaborate with the Development Team: You work closely with the development team to ensure a clear understanding of the requirements. You answer questions, clarify requirements, and make prompt decisions to keep work progressing.
- Participate Actively in Agile Ceremonies: In agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), you actively participates in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. During Sprint Planning, you explain the highest-priority items and their importance, help define sprint goals, and ensure the team remains focused on delivering value.
- Communicate and Align with Stakeholders: You act as a liaison between the development team and external stakeholders (customers, business leaders, sales teams, etc.). You gather feedback, requirements, and requests from stakeholders and align product development with business objectives.
- Ensure Product Quality and User Experience: You ensure the product meets quality standards and delivers a positive user experience, refine requirements, ensure acceptance criteria are met, participate in user testing when needed, evaluate prototypes, and provide usability feedback.
- Make Trade-offs and Decisions: You make trade-offs between features, scope, timelines, and technical feasibility.
- Monitor Product Progress and KPIs: You track key performance indicators (KPIs), user feedback, and usage data to ensure the product meets its goals.
- Clarify Product Vision and Scope (with PM Collaboration): While you define the product vision and high-level strategy, you also ensure the team understands it in detail. You break down the strategy into actionable work and ensure the development team builds what the business needs.