Product owner & strategic consulting in the implementation of a portal for car dealers

Objective

The goal is to develop a scalable cloud platform for handling the affected processes, uniting the brands — strictly separated in the enterprise landscape — in one user interface, solving performance problems and improving the existing processes and functionalities.

Approach

• Product owner role in one of the involved Scrum teams
• Co-designing the product regarding design, functionality and technical solution
• Identification of market and customer needs
• Specification, requirements management and product slicing (epics, features, user stories)
• Administration and prioritization of the product backlog in Azure DevOps
• Monitoring, planning and steering of product progress towards milestone goals and delivery of the MVP (sprint planning, PI planning)
• Quality assurance and acceptance of features and user stories (acceptance tests)
• Dependency management and communication with other development teams
• Representing the business requirements towards the development team
• Planning and conducting the meetings defined in Scrum and SAFe
• Advising program management (e.g. improving processes in the project)

Result

• Fully operational portal for car dealers
• Successful strategic positioning and alignment of the project and company