Behavioral Competencies

• Teamwork & Communication: Values collaboration and promotes transparency across teams.
  
• Curiosity & Passion: Seeks continuous improvement in self and team performance.
  
• Accountability & Professionalism: Takes ownership of tasks and outcomes.
  
• Customer Focus: Always considers business and end-user impact in decision-making.
  

Backlog & Requirements Management

• Maintain a transparent, prioritized, and continuously refined product backlog.
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to gather requirements, translating them into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
  
• Ensure backlog items meet the principles: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
  

Prioritization & Planning

• Assist in prioritizing user stories based on business value, customer needs, and technical constraints.
  
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions and sprint planning to ensure alignment with release goals and capacity.
  

Agile Delivery Support

• Actively engage in agile ceremonies — stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
  
• Provide clarity to the development team on requirements and priorities.
  
• Monitor sprint progress and help resolve blockers related to requirements or priorities.
  

Acceptance Criteria & Validation

• Collaborate with the development team to define acceptance criteria for all user stories.
  
• Participate in sprint reviews to validate completed stories against agreed criteria.
  

Release & Documentation Support

• Assist in release planning by documenting confirmed features, known issues, and upcoming priorities.
  
• Ensure release documentation is accurate and available for stakeholders.
  
• Understand CI/CD principles to support efficient deployment cycles.
  

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team to gather feedback and clarify requirements.
  
• Support product demos and provide updates on product progress.
  

Continuous Learning & Improvement

• Proactively develop skills in agile product management practices, tools, and domain knowledge.
  
• Seek opportunities to optimize processes for better delivery outcomes.