Senior Product Owner | IT Manager | 15 Jahre Erfahrung

4/2019 – 3/2020

- Taking over responsibilities as Product Owner in a hybrid setting
- Managing Multi-Stakeholder environment with up to 70 internal and external Stakeholders
- Managing Multi-Product environment with 5 Product Streams
- Managing roadmapping, prioritization, planning, budgeting and releasing in this Multi- Stakeholder and Product environment.
- Managing high risk technical components, such as authentication for Paas for all systems (bank, clients, employees, etc.) within the bank.
- Doing requirements engineering and refinement for technical components
- Requirements Engineering in a highly regulated environment - banking
- Writing User Stories
- Writing and Executing Acceptance Tests
- Preparing and observing sprint
- Providing status reports for management and stakeholders
- Presenting solutions and features to stakeholders, such as management board and banking managers
- Setting up and getting Scrum started together with Scrum Master
- Managing knowledge transfer of Developers, to solve “knowledge islands” and minimize “truck effect”
- Redirecting communication of tasks, incidents, etc. by stakeholders from developers to me as a Product Owner and introducing a proper handling for planning
- Representing Scrum Master in ceremonies such as daily, planning, review
- Working with Jira, Confluence, Office Suite

Mehrprojektmanagement, Agile Methodologie, Product Owner, Produktmanagement, Produktmanager, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Requirement Analyse, Requirements Engineer, Requirements Management, Scrum

10/2015 – 3/2019

- Taking over Product Ownership for development of 3 mobile apps (Xamaring, IOS & Android)
- Developing Product Vision with internal Stakeholders and Dev-Team
- Managing Scheduling and Roadmapping
- Doing Project Controlling, since we had to meet though deadlines
- Regular Status Reporting to IT Managers
- Performing Requirements Engineering
- Requirements Engineering in a highly regulated environment - gambling
- Writing Epics and Stories
- Writing and Performing Acceptance Tests
- Managing Texts, Marketing and everything needed for a proper release with other departments
- Managing Release incl. and coordinating other departments (e.g. Advertisement)
- Roadmapping, Refinement and Releasing of features for released apps
- Building app department from scratch
- Designing and introducing a Kanban process, whilst other dev-teams, which we had been technically and organisationally depending on, stayed in waterfall
- Scaling process for growing team (4 > 20 people)
- Managing 2 dev-teams with 2 Product Owners
- Training and Coaching of Product Owners to enable them in the role
- Strong collaboration with Tech Teamleads, Testing and UX/UI Design Team
- Working with Jira, Confluence, Office Suite
- Managing Products and Team in English

Mehrprojektmanagement, Agile Coach, Agile Methodologie, Business Process Model and Notation, Kanban (Softwareentwicklung), Mobile Application Development, Product Owner, Produktmanagement, Produktmanager, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Prozessoptimierung, Release-Management, Requirement Analyse, Requirements Engineer, Requirements Management

1/2014 – 8/2015

- Requirements Management for 4 countries within Aldi South group
- Responsible for all website components (website, mobile
app, newsletter system, tracking system, etc.)
- Responsible for Web2Print application
- taking part in international prioritization meetings, to ensure prioritization of my stakeholder’s requirements
- performing acceptance tests
- Making Release Notes and Handouts for my Stakeholders
- Training Stakheolders for new features
- Managing several external development partners

Projektmanagement (IT), Mehrprojektmanagement, Release-Management, Requirement Analyse, Requirements Engineer, Requirements Management

9/2011 – 11/2013

- Responsible for website development with CMS Sitecore as a Project Manager in a digital agnecy
- Leading customer projects in waterfall as well as agile settings
- Taking over all Project Manager responsibilities (offer, specification, coordination, controlling, testing, releasing, training of users, etc.)
- Responsible for 5 customers and 10 Projects simultaneously
- Responsible for Project Calculation and Sales for projects <150 MD
- Responsible for Project Controlling and meeting budget lines
- Requirements Engineering for CMS Systems
- Performing Acceptance Tests
- Status Reporting for customers and my manager
- User Training
- Writing Release Notes
- Writing Handbooks and Handouts
- Managing all Project Phases from Concepting, Development, Releasing and ongoing optimization and support

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Release-Management, Scrum, Projektplanung, Requirement Analyse, Requirements Engineer, Requirements Management, Agile Methodologie, Konzeption (IT), Mehrprojektmanagement, Projektkalkulation, Projektmanagement - Angebotsmanagement, Projektmanagement (IT), Projektsteuerung (Projektcontrolling)