M01 - Product Manager

RESPONSIBILITY

• Work with stakeholders to identify & understand the requirements of software systems
• Plan and participate in product conceptualization sessions with stakeholders for eliciting requirements.
• Elicit and documents business/user requirements and translate them into user-stories for development.
• Manage requirements by continuously clarifying and reviewing them via walkthrough with stakeholders.
• Work with developers to interpret requirements leading to technical implementation.
• Analyze requirements to drive the design or review of test cases/business model/processes
• Work closely with Product Owner on project schedule, issues and escalation
• Work closely with Product Owner to manager business owners and project sponsors expectations
• Drive business process change requests on gaps identified and manage a projects scope and acceptance.
• Provide inputs to development team for implementation.
• Work with user experience designers (UXDs) and business users to plan for UAT, coordinates and monitor progress and acceptance of UAT.
• Ensures completion of documentations and filings to facilitate software development.
• Continuously finds means and ways to improve operations, streamline work processes and work cooperatively and jointly with various users' departments to provide quality service.
• For smaller projects, double hat as Product Manager with following responsibilities
• Create project status report and other communication materials
• Craft project proposal to secure project funding and justify resource allocations
• Manage project scope and stakeholders expectations
• Issue escalation to the right people in timely manner
• Maintain and continuously refine Product Backlog
• Maintain Project RAID Log and follow up on action items

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS NEEDED

• More than 2 years of business analyst experience in software development projects
• Experiences with web-based and business process software systems implementation
• Good written and verbal communication, including minute taking and technical writing skills
• Possess business case and user-stories development skills
• Ability to work effectively and independently under pressure, meet deadlines, multitask and to prioritize tasks
• Motivated to learn new skills and technologies
• Highly meticulous and tenacious, follow up with things to closure
• Experience with Agile project methodology (Scrum / Extreme Programming) and UX development environment will be an added advantage
• Experience with focus group and workshop facilitation will be an added advantage
• Experience with Confluence, JIRA and Balsamiq will be an added advantage
• Experience with BPM modelling techniques and methods will be an added advantage
• Certified Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner and/or Certified Business
• Analysis Professional will be an added advantage
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or related disciplines