Aezion - Senior Product Owner/Business Analyst

• Business Analyst
• Bangalore/Coimbatore.
• Fulltime.
• Goals:

• Help businesses implement technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to stakeholders, facilitators and partners.
• Should be multifaceted as a mediator, moderator, connector and ambassador in bringing client business needs together with IT resources.
• Should be clear communicator, smooth facilitator, precise analyzer and team player.
• Should act like a bridge between business systems from the end user to functional implementation of technical solutions.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Do the ground work before requirements gathering meeting with the client about their line of business and any sample applications etc.
• Interact with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems and needs.
• Completely listen and jot down the key words, points and ask questions if not understood.
• Analyze the requirements after the meeting while creating the very first version of the requirements document.
• Identify work flows and patterns that could help with the ability for system to drive the process.

Pointers to follow with requirements and documenting:

• Extract requirements: Incomplete or improper requirements lead to project failure.
• Anticipate requirements: It is dynamic world of IT.
• Constrain requirements: Focus on core business needs, not on users' personal preferences / trends /outdated processes.
• Organize requirements: Requirements often originates from disparate.
• Translate requirements: Sometimes, need to be translated into technical requirements or assist to the team who makes the technical requirements.

Simplify requirements:

• Share a clearly written document with client and get the approval.
• Get clarifications if needed.
• Understand the client demo timelines and plan the work for dev team accordingly.
• Pull the user stories and necessary tasks into sprints to meet the demo deadlines.
• Make use of testing team if available (by assigning task to testing team) OR you test the finished user stories.
• Plan deployments for internal testing / UAT/DEMO.
• Perform database validation on the stored procedures developed to make sure the right output is derived for the UX mock up designed.
• Plan for smooth UAT after internal testing either by using testing team or by yourself.