You work closely with Business Owners, Product Management, System Architects, and other Product Owners to understand the vision and roadmap. You translate Features into well-defined Stories and ensure their successful delivery within Planning Intervals (PIs), contributing to a reliable and value-driven flow across domains.
As an IT Product Owner in a SAFe environment, you:
- Elicit, clarify, and assess stakeholder needs and requests, making transparent trade-offs based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies
- Align priorities, requirements, scope boundaries, assumptions, and decisions with relevant business and technical stakeholders
- Strongly influence the evolution of your domain and its technical roadmap
- Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, structuring it into incremental releases
- Translate product features into detailed technical user stories for backend services and domain logic
- Define functional and non-functional acceptance criteria and ensure testability
- Coordinate with other Product Owners to identify integration points across domains and ensure product and release coherence
- Provide transparency on scope, priorities, status, risks, and dependencies
- Actively contribute to relevant Scrum and SAFe events by clarifying priorities and requirements, enabling timely decisions, and ensuring a shared understanding of intended outcomes
- Track progress and coordinate the prioritization and resolution of production issues