• Hint: Depending on the organization, the vision is passed on by the business or sponsor of the project, once the vision is communicated, the Product Owner (PO) will wait on the management to provide the team to execute the project and PO will fully attain his role afterwards. Except the role of staffing is put on the PO also.

• I tend to spend so much time at work to forget my daughters dance class, I am getting better at this with constantly setting important personal alarm to my company calendar reminder, so I can have a balance work life balance.

• As a product Owner, I intend to advance to senior management to become a manager in 3 years and senior manager in 5 years as an experienced product manager, in the long term I see myself becoming a Director or VP in the field also.

• I enjoy and embrace any opportunity to deliver value to clients and deliver quality products. I believe any product is a potential gold mine that can become great so I enjoy those privileges.

• I have taken many AGILE classes, CSPO Certification and PMI-ACP

• Customer satisfaction on product, quality deliverable, ability to collaborate with other stake holders and prioritizing of the product values

• I have learnt to always involve the stake holders at early stage, effective communications at all times, and to always foster communications at all times on the project.

• I have been blessed to have worked for current place but its contract, or I travel a lot and will want to have more time for family

• I am very opened to a competitive salary, and I know you will be fair to make an offer based on industry rate. I will try and avoid letting them know details. If they push too much we give a range that we feel comfortable with. Contract -50hr- 80hr,fulltime 90k -105k.

• I am a certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), PMI-ACP

• Position measure by timely delivery, KPI met, values added to the business, constantly collaborating with the right stake holders to get value.

• The key duties of Agile Product Owner are:

  • Ensure the right thing gets build at the right time
  • Provide the vision and business case
  • Steer the project
  • Evaluate the scope to ensure vision is met
  • Prioritize continuously
  • Provide good user stories with acceptance criteria
    • Just in time
    • Just the right level of detail
  • Provide feature feedback as often as reasonable
  • Be an integrated part of the team

• Customer satisfaction on product, quality deliverable, ability to collaborate with other stake holders and prioritizing of the product values

• I learn to always foster strong communication between all stake holders and avoid surprises on projects, value based focus on the product should be key also.

• Ensure the right thing gets build at the right time – Keep prioritizing and follow up
• Provide the vision and business case- constantly remind team of the vision and why what they do matters?
• Steer the project- help clear road blocks
• Evaluate the scope to ensure vision is met- constantly prioritize project.
• Prioritize continuously
• Provide good user stories with acceptance criteria- Help get good user stories
  • Just in time
  • Just the right level of detail
• Provide feature feedback as often as reasonable
• Be an integrated part of the team

• I work very well with my team through effective collaboration, feedback and follow up.

• I once recommended a team to be split because the QA and the BA never got along, once I realized it was impacting the project delivery, I request the 2 be split to different team. This worked magic for the deliverable time.

• Everyone will do their best if trusted and given an opportunity to thrive. Whatever it takes just do it!

• Spend time with family and spend time on my passion for orphanages to help support and give the same opportunity I have been blessed to have.

• Prepare 3 questions based on research on the company, also ask what makes them different from the competition, what makes people enjoy working for the organization etc.

• Please research company you are applying for : history, products and services, competitors, structure

• I made recommendation on the way the feed at the backend of the product to behave for a product catalog, the current one was not pulling data right from the direct website and I recommended commission junction platform for the pull of the product, commission junction is a 3^rd party site to pull catalog and give commission also.

I have strong focus on the following:

• Customer satisfaction on product, quality deliverable, ability to collaborate with other stake holders and prioritizing of the product values

• Key Result Areas (KRA)/ Key Performance Indicator (KPI) are what is determined to make sure we succeed. Such as customer satisfaction survey, analytic traffic to show positive result, better user experience etc.

• Clarify requirements (re-write) user stories to meet the INVEST principle
• Clarify and update acceptance criteria
• Break down user stories that are too big (epics)
• Size user stories
• Re-prioritize as needed

• This is the agreed upon end result all parties expect to have. This will be agreed upon by all parties.

• These are generally baseline starting points and should be customized for a team’s specific product and environment.

• This are terms agreed by the team on how to operate. Such as communication agreement, no lateness to meetings, respect everyone’s opinion etc.

• Scrum team is the project team, typically 7- 9 members and the membership can comprise of the Product owner, scrum master and the team ( Tech lead/ Lead Developers/Lead Programmer, QA Lead, Business analyst, Engineer, User Experience (UX/UI), Front end developers, QA, Developer/Programmer

• As a traveler with children I want to book a hotel room with a pool so my kids can have fun when we are on vacation
• As a hotel admin I want to list rooms online so travelers can book rooms and I can make money
• As a last minute traveler I want to be able to book a hotel with no cancellation charges so I can change my plans at the last minute without penalty

• As a traveler I want to book a hotel room online so I can plan my trip

• Sprint Review:
• Team presents what it accomplished during the sprint
• Typically takes the form of a demo of new features or underlying architecture
• Informal
• 2-hour prep time rule
• No slides
• Whole team participates
• Invite the world

• Periodically take a look at what is and is not working
• Typically 15–30 minutes
• Done after every sprint
• Whole team participates
  • ScrumMaster
  • Product owner
  • Team
  • Possibly customers and others

• Searching the recruiters: history, products and services, competitors, structure….
• Identity job description, job specs, job goals for Agile product owner.
• Ask by yourself how to prove your competencies face to job specs?
• List technical interview questions for Agile product owner.