Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Location: Plano TX

Job Type: FTE

Job Description:

Safe Agile trained 2. 7+ years of experience in Product definition, Features definition, EPIC and User story definition

IBM Rationale tools, JIRA, Agile Craft, Kanban, Agile Development Methodology, Microsoft Office tool and Sharepoint.

Knowledge of Telecommunication products and services

Decompose features into user stories w/testable acceptance criteria (including reporting acceptance criteria if applicable)

Understand the overall product vision including customer experience, define the approach within the scrum team and ensure it is communicated to all scrum team members

Scrum with UX and development teams to work on backlog grooming, prioritize bug fixes, UX improvements and feature expansion/elimination

Ensures grooming is taking place at the right speed team maintains 2 sprint groomed backlog

Negotiate prioritization of dependencies with other Product Managers commit to dependencies opened against the team

Attends demo and accepts stories that meets Definition of Done

Communicates clearly and regularly about the user stories and the connection to the features (customer/business requirements)

Monitors team agile metrics, KPIs (POCR, progression, conversion), identifies areas for improvement

If applicable, review content & design with Legal to obtain feedback; analyze feedbacks RE legal risk and determines what/if changes to implement

Responsible for all aspects of the scum team's output UX, technology and user story

Understands the scope of technical debt and collaborates with development/architecture for definition and prioritization of technical debt backlog items

Provides inputs for release management on defect criticality or related issues to facilitate production deployment decisions