What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at IBM?
Minimum Requirements
An understanding of traditional and new requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice
5 or more years experience with Agile Development and / or Scrum methodology
Responsibilities
As an Offering Manager at IBM, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering : from validating need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements.
Use your keen insights into what customers want in their business plans and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to problems.
Capture the business, functional, and technical requirements necessary to implement new products or features within the Acoustic product suite.
Work under minimal supervision to elicit, analyze, validate, document, verify, and manage the requirements through the development life cycle.
Serve as a business and customer liaison to Engineering and QA, guiding the efforts of the development team.
Lead the development team on large and / or complex projects, fulfilling goals established on the product roadmap with limited guidance from senior Product Managers.
Be the Subject Matter Expert for current functionality.
Serve as the agile product owner for one or more agile software development teams.
Understand customer pains in your area and advocate for improving those pains.
Understand product strengths and weaknesses and plan to enhance or correct them over time.
Interact with customers (including user groups and user interviews) to gain perspective on how your features are used.
Collaborate with Product Management leadership, executives, and other project stakeholders to define, understand, and document the roadmap for the team.
Communicate the direction to the Engineers and QA Analysts on the team.
Independently develop the requirements and direct the implementation of features from large to small scale.
Create a detailed backlog based on the roadmap for the team.
Facilitate the review and approval process for the backlog.
Follow Acoustic’s guidelines and best practices for backlog development, using natural language that is simple, clear, unambiguous, and concise.
Ensure a solid backlog that represents Acoustic’s customers.
Use interviews, brainstorming sessions, graphical modeling, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, competitive product analysis, and other methods to ensure that your backlog maximizes business value for features.
Coordinate with UX Design and Information Architects to ensure that all requirements and artifacts are complete and consistent.
Collaborate with Engineering and QA to estimate the backlog and ensure an accurate picture of what needs to be developed and why.
Work with the team to communicate issues encountered during development and proactively resolve minor issues to ensure customer needs are addressed.
Ensure the business is prepared to support the launch of new features and products through coordination with Release Management.
Train customer-facing teams in Acoustic on your team’s features and write the initial customer documentation on new functionality.
Assist in the continuous improvement of requirements gathering and prioritization processes and tools.
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