Product Owner (PO) – Azure DevOps

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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