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- Communication:
- Bring together stakeholders, being the bridge across partners, orgs, people, projects
- “Unsticking” organizations or partners confused about priorities or the value a product can bring to their organization
- Help to get high-priority, high-value ideas into a “ready to go”, clearly communicated state that the design and/or development team can act on
- On-call for issues that come up during design, development, or delivery, where we need to clarify user stories, market context, etc
- Solve problems collaboratively with other organizations
- Discovery:
- Organize feedback
- Collect, distill, and disseminate user research and industry research
- Partner with designers on user research, design feedback, and prioritize high-value user workflows
- Development:
- Roadmap creation, maintenance and escalation
- Creating actionable issues/tickets and following up regularly on high-priority issues
- Supporting developers to understand business requirements
- Solid baseline project management skills
- Facilitates sprint preparation (where applicable) and facilitates sprint activity by gathering requirements, and converting epics/stories into actionable tickets
- Backlog review, cleaning/curation, & prioritization
- Diving into code or config files (if able) if they need small tweaks, or to understand work complexity
- May apply tools such as those in the Business Analyst Framework kit
- Delivery:
- Create or Support documentation and training materials
- Release communication planning and clear release notes
- Success Metrics planning
Requirements
- Has obtained PM stage 3; AND,
- Commitment to understanding users, demonstrated through routine virtual and in-person user interviews; AND,
- An established precedent of community product contributions: Clear, demonstrated evidence of the above types of activities successfully used for community product momentum; AND,
- Actively growing in the foundational Product Management categories of Communication, Discovery, Development, and Delivery, as evidenced by recent product or feature success, and/or growth, e.g. as demonstrated in an ongoing PM Self-Assessment; AND,
- Demonstrates ongoing learning about the modern Product Team process and how to improve, e.g. through attending webinars, workshops, conferences, or online courses (e.g. Industry Virtual conference; Product-Led Certification course; etc.).