Senior Agile Product Manager - Transformation - AA Inclusion

This role develops the strategic design, planning, and implementation of programs and processes to support the assigned domains and to ensure integration with the broader corporate strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand Customer Needs and Validates Solutions. Product Management is the internal voice of the Customer for the ART and works with Customers (as well as Product Owners) to constantly understand and communicate their needs and participate in validation of the proposed solutions.
• Understand and Support Portfolio Work. Every Agile Release Train lives in the context of a portfolio, so Product Management has a responsibility to understand the Budget parameters for the upcoming fiscal period, understand how Strategic Themes influence the strategic direction, and work with Epic Owners to develop the business case for Epics that affect their ART.
• Develop and Communicate the Program Vision and Roadmap. Product Management continuously develops and communicates the vision to the development teams and defines the Features of the system. Manage the business requests to align with the scope of the business objectives, and negotiate backlog priorities while providing solution alternatives. In collaboration with Systems and Solution Architect/Engineering, they also define and maintain the Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs), to help assure the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements. They are responsible for the roadmap, which illustrates, at a high level, how features are intended to be implemented over time.
• Manage and Prioritize the Flow of Work. Product management manages the flow of work through the program Kanban and into the program backlog. Product Management is responsible for making sure that there are enough ready features in the backlog at all times. To be ready, they develop feature acceptance criteria that can be used to establish that the feature meets its Definition of Done. And since judicious selection and sequencing of features is the key economic driver for each ART, the backlog is reprioritized with WSJF prior to each PI Planning session.
• Participate in PI Planning. During each PI planning session, Product Management presents the vision, which highlights the proposed features of the solution, along with any relevant upcoming Milestones. They also typically participate as Business Owners for the train, with the responsibility of approving PI Objectives and establishing business value.

Responsibilities Cont.

• Identify any program level issues, risks, dependencies, and work with BOs and CPO(s) to prioritize and resolve.
• Define Releases and Program Increments. Owning the what means that Product Management is largely responsible for release definition as well, including new features, architecture, and allocations for technical debt. This is accomplished through a series of Increments and re