Product Owner

Hitachi Energy provides industry leading software and deep domain expertise to help the world’s most asset intensive industries such as energy, utilities and mining solve their biggest challenges, from plant level, to regional network scale, to global fleet-wide operations. Their enterprise software portfolio offers an unparalleled range of solutions for asset performance management (Asset Suite), operations and workforce management (Service Suite), network control and energy portfolio management to help customers reach new levels of efficiency, reliability, safety and sustainability.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify project stakeholders, subject matter experts and security access requirements.
  • Continue to engage business into the product development process and effectively collaborate with stakeholders to identify and validate requirements.
  • Build a product backlog in Version One tool, envision and estimate the product, and plan for incremental releases.
  • Follow Agile ceremonies (Release Planning, Spring Planning / Retro / Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases.
  • Attend daily scrum stand-up meetings, prepare UML Use Cases, write User Stories and facilitate grooming sessions utilizing the Agile and Scrum methodologies.
  • Document meeting minutes and ensured that action items were tracked and issues identified / resolved.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence business stakeholders on product decisions.

  • Facilitate brainstorming sessions, document minutes and ensured that action items were tracked and issues identified/resolved.

  • Prepared UML Use Cases and User Stories utilizing Version One tool for agile development team.
  • Define project scope and deliverables and prepare current and future state swim-lane process diagrams using MS Visio.
  • Manage scrum teams and responsible for features development by Product Development.

Hitachi Energy utilized Agile software development:

Agile methods break tasks into small increments with minimal planning, each iteration involves a team working through a full software development cycle including planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing when a working product is demonstrated to stakeholders.

Project Deliverables for the Service Suite, Workforce Management product:
  • Scope Definition and Project Charter for the Capacity Administrator project.
  • Business, Functional, and Non-Functional Requirements Matrix for Business Requirements Document.
  • Define security requirements and prepare Security Matrix for Security Administration application and User’s Guide.
  • UML Use Cases and Alternative Scenarios.
  • Define Features and User Stories and
  • Current (AS-IS) – Future State (TO-BE) process mapping.
  • Gap Analysis for Forecast Run, Dispatch Schedule (Gantt Chart), Fieldworker Tablet Asset Layers and Layered Maps
  • Pros and Cons Analysis for Capacity Administrator project.