FunctieomschrijvingThe Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team and is responsible for defining stories and prioritising the team backlog in order to simplify the execution of the program priorities. Within Dimension Data, they are also responsible for the conceptual and technical integrity of the features aswell as the systems and process operational integrity.The Product Owner role spans the lifecycle of a Product, from Minimum Viable Product (MVP), through to the retiring of a product. They work closely with Product Management, Service Delivery, Service Architecture and Platform Delivery in order to deliver on their mandate.The Product Owner maintains a key responsibility towards Quality Control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories completed.They operate as the content authority at a Team level and work towards optimising the return on investment (ROI) by ensuring the Scrum Team members are engaged in delivering the most valuable product features.The Product Owner within Dimension Data’s application of the role will also be responsible for the operational aspects of a Product lifecycle, through to Retirement of the product. They will work closely with the Operational teams and GTM Product Managers to ensure the continual optimization of the product to improve operations and product profitability.ResponsibilitiesProvide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the offer/product Fully understand the product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to enable onward articulation into the development team Drive pilot clients through the transition processAssist the transition team with any gaps in enabling new capabilities and featuresAssess value, prioritise backlog items based on this value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning meeting and refined during the PI, to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with the offer/product strategy Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionality/capability Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and iteration goals Establish story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baselineOngoing operational ownership of the Product post MVP completionCapture and maintain Service Delivery capabilitiesEstablish a continual engagement with the GTM and Operational teamsBuild out dashboards and product optimization strategie Requirements Qualifications SAFe Product Owner / Product ManagerCertification Implementing & Leading SAFeTechnical qualification/ certification orexperience related to Product   Knowledge and skills Applicable knowledge of the technologiesand portfolio of offers used by the team Deep knowledge and understanding of thesystems and processes that a product is enabled throughDemonstrable knowledge of productdevelopment in an ICT industry Strong knowledge of SAFe’s practices andits application/operation Strong communication aptitude, with aninnate ability to say “no” in a way that will not discourage or upset thebusiness Effective conflict resolver Effective escalator Team empowerer – through strongcollaboration and knowledge brokering Understand fundamentals of iterativedevelopment Understand fundamentals of product/software development processes and procedures Understand the value of commitments todelivery made by a development team Understand incremental delivery and thevalue of metrics Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics,velocity, and task definition Be able to relate to, and integrate withalternate development methodologies (e.g. waterfall Be conversant in DevOps practises andunderstand strong relationship and bi-directional dependency required withdeployment teams