Expert Product Owner

Position: Expert Product Owner

Location: Brussels (Hybrid role, 3x a week in the office)

Long term contract.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.

• Possesses an in depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.

• Interacts and validates requirements with the business

• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment.

• Is involved in the decision making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.

• Participates in project planning.

• Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.

• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.

• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.

• Provides progress reporting.

• Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.

• Assist with preparation of guidelines and training material 2

• Interaction with the business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Rapid self-starting capability

• Ability to take decision in case of issues efficiently and fast

• Ability to give business and technical presentations

• Ability to apply high quality standards

• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences

• Analysis and problem solving skills

• Capability to write clear and structured business requirements documents

• Ability to participate in meetings with stakeholders and good communication skills

• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.