Description
Job Summary:
A professional responsible for acting as a PMO with the role of Product Owner, ensuring organization, monitoring, and governance of team activities through Azure DevOps.
Key Highlights:
1. Hybrid role as PMO and Product Owner
2. Strong focus on organization and governance via Azure DevOps
3. Strategic backlog management and project progress tracking
A professional responsible for acting as a PMO with the role of Product Owner, ensuring organization, monitoring, and governance of team activities through Azure DevOps (Boards).
Responsibilities include structuring and maintaining the backlog, tracking activity progress, ensuring accurate information entry by the team, and generating status reports. The professional will also participate in project meetings, support requirements gathering, and produce meeting minutes and executive reports.
**Requirements:**
**Requirements:**
Experience with Azure DevOps (Boards)
Experience in project management (PMO) and/or as a Product Owner
Knowledge of agile methodologies
Strong communication and organizational skills
**Preferred Qualifications:**
**Experience with dashboards and reporting tools (e.g.,** Power BI)
Position Objective
To act as a PMO with Product Owner responsibilities, ensuring organization, monitoring, and governance of team activities, with strong emphasis on Azure DevOps (Boards), guaranteeing visibility into the backlog, delivery progress, and quality of recorded information.
Key Responsibilities
**Manage and organize Azure DevOps Boards, ensuring:**
Correct backlog structure (Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks)
Appropriate demand prioritization
Clear visibility of activity status
Accurate and consistent entry of activities in Azure DevOps
Monitoring updates made by the team
Enforcing and guiding the team on proper tool usage
Maintaining organized and reliable data
Daily activity tracking
Monitoring team progress
Identifying risks, delays, and bottlenecks
Supporting replanning when necessary
Creating and maintaining tracking reports and metrics
Status reports
Burndown / progress tracking
Backlog vs. deliveries
Azure DevOps dashboards
Organizing and tracking backlog and demand pipeline
Ensuring traceability of ongoing work
**Clearly separate:**
In Progress
In Backlog
Completed
**Participate in meetings for:**
Requirements gathering
Project monitoring
Refinement
Documentation and communication
Drafting meeting minutes
Consolidating status reports
Communicating progress and risks to stakeholders
️ Technical Requirements
**Solid experience with:**
✅ Azure DevOps (Boards) – mandatory
Creating and managing queries
Configuring Boards
Using dashboards
Backlog management
**Knowledge of:**
Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
Project management (PMO)
Backlog management and prioritization
**Experience with:**
Preparing executive reports
Project tracking tools
Behavioral Competencies
Organization and attention to detail
Proactivity and ownership mindset
Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
Ability to follow up and hold the team accountable
Analytical mindset to identify problems and opportunities
Facility in facilitating meetings
Differentiators
**Previous experience as:**
PMO
Product Owner
Scrum Master
**Knowledge of:**
Power BI (for reporting)
Azure DevOps integration with other tools
Expected Key Deliverables
Boards organized and updated daily
100% traceability of demands
Periodic status reports
Documented meeting minutes
Well-prioritized and well-structured backlog
Team adherence to correct Azure DevOps usage