👤 Product Owner
Purpose
The Product Owner role is essential for ensuring that our value stream teams build, operate, and support VSHN products end-to-end, addressing customer needs and aligning with our product strategy. By managing and prioritizing stakeholder requirements, this role ensures that the team’s efforts are focused on delivering maximum value and addressing the most critical customer needs.
Accountabilities (Key Responsibilities)
Support stakeholders and peers with product knowledge.
Act as gatekeeper and SPOC for the team wherever it serves effectiveness.
Oversee work progress, quality, and effectiveness.
Ensure the product backlog is transparent, visible, and understood by the team and stakeholders.
Balance the team’s workload across new features, changes, maintenance, and problem-solving.
Prioritize stakeholder requirements to align with product strategy and maximize customer value.
Create viable product backlog items or support the team in creating them.
Understand the product, its market positioning, competition, customer needs, and business impact.
Stakeholders and Key Deliverables
- Products Work Group
In-person representation of the Products' status and development priorities
In-person representation of the Team’s planned work and capacity.
- Product Manager
Representation of the product and development progress
- Team
Interface to stakeholders
Clear, prioritized work backlog
Support in managing stakeholders and workload
- Account Management
Onboarding, projects, and changes are prioritized into the backlog
Interface to the Team
Knowledge about the product, features, etc.
- Customers
Continuous product development to optimize their value
Dependencies
- Team
This role depends on the team for collaborative decision-making and performing the operational work. The responsibility for the outcomes stays with the whole team.
Organizing the team and workflow is with the team, supported by the Team Facilitator.
- Product Manager
Strategy context, drive roadmap and represent objectives to align with.