Johannes O.
Product Owner
Experience
Sep 2024 - Present
1 yearBerlin, Germany
Product Owner
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
- Gathering technical requirements from legally binding sources based on market trends and existing solutions
- Recording customer wishes and formal customer requirements
- Creating initial documentation for system development
- Collaborating with the overall system architect on the possible solution space
- Working in an agile development team and with project management on methods and customer interfaces
- Breaking down requirements into generic and specific parts as input for specialist teams
- Developing requirements and implementation concepts with lawyers and data protection officers
- Leading an English-speaking, cross-functional development team in a large project of over 100 people and multiple Scrum teams
- Successfully and on time implementing the “Family Reunification Visa” application flow in the foreign portal
- Expanding the Visa Navigator for quick and easy identification of the correct visa
- Using agile methods (SAFe, LeSS) for coordinated work in a multi-team project with complex dependencies
- Identifying and evaluating requirements with stakeholders and handling change requests
- Capturing, documenting, and consolidating requirements in Jira and Confluence
- Analyzing technical and business requirements, reviewing bugs, and converting them into epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Ongoing backlog refinement and prioritizing product backlog items
- Leading workshops, meetings, and Scrum of Scrums for consensus building and conflict resolution
- Close coordination with architects, UI/UX experts, and business analysts considering EU visa and passport laws
- Continuously removing accessibility barriers (BITV) and performing regular accessibility checks
- Approving implemented user stories and epics with the development team
- Joint roadmap planning with the customer over four quarters, prioritizing by “political deadlines” and legal deadlines
- Creating and using initiatives in Jira to plan and track larger strategic goals
- Aligning release planning with test and release managers
- Regularly presenting sprint results to stakeholders to share product progress
- Configuring complex Jira and Kanban workflows to optimize project management
- Acting as the point of contact for stakeholders on content-related questions
- Identifying and monitoring project risks and taking action
May 2021 - May 2024
3 years 1 monthBerlin, Germany
Product Owner
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
- Building and evolving the data trustee platform “CenTrust” for GDPR-compliant linking and pseudonymization of health data
- Migrating a monolithic application to a microservice architecture
- Delivering multiple client projects, including digital vaccination rate monitoring for COVID-19 vaccinations
- Analyzing and aligning requirements with stakeholders
- Checking technical and economic feasibility of project requirements
- Defining and prioritizing new requirements and optimizations to improve system performance and user satisfaction
- Capturing, documenting, and consolidating requirements in Jira and Confluence
- Translating requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria
- Coordinating with business unit, portfolio managers, and software and system architects
- Serving as the interface between upper management and operational project teams as a SPOC
- Ensuring customer satisfaction through proactive quality checks and feedback
- Creating clear documentation for different audiences
- Approving implemented features and grouping product increments into releases
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 monthsCreußen, Germany
Product Owner
GO-ITC GmbH
- Developing the technical implementation concept in close consultation with the software architect and client
- Creating project documentation to track all project-relevant information
- Translating requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria for the agile development team
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 10 monthsMunich, Germany
Technical Business Analyst
via Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH
- Analyzing and designing solutions for technical business requirements in the prepaid segment of Telefónica Germany
- Coordinating and ensuring successful implementation in collaboration with an agile team
May 2016 - Dec 2018
2 years 8 monthsIngolstadt, Germany
Business Process Architect / Scrum Master
Media-Saturn IT Services GmbH
- Analyzing and designing Europe-wide payment processes
- Designing company-wide business processes
- Integrating additional payment service providers, omnichannel integration (on-premise/cloud)
- Coaching the Scrum team and stakeholders
- Conducting and facilitating Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, review, daily, retrospectives, refinements)
- Removing impediments
- Coordinating with other Scrum Masters in a community of practice
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
2 years 2 monthsMunich, Germany
Project Manager / Product Owner
SSP Europe GmbH (today DRACOON GmbH)
- Designing and planning custom software projects for clients and partners
- Planning and coordinating technical implementation including analyzing and evaluating customer requirements
- Leading and managing various client projects within time and budget constraints
- Collaborating with European development teams
- Ensuring product quality and compliance with third-party licenses
Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
1 yearRegensburg, Germany
Service Manager
SSP Europe GmbH (today DRACOON GmbH)
- Communicating and coordinating across departments
- Managing key partners and clients within the corporate environment
- Presenting the business cloud storage solution as on-premise and OEM/white-label options
- Integrating and configuring the business cloud storage for partners and clients
- Training support staff and infrastructure administrators
Mar 2012 - Feb 2013
1 yearRegensburg, Germany
Scrum Master / Application Developer
SSP Europe GmbH (today DRACOON GmbH)
- Introducing Scrum in the company
- Leading Scrum teams
- Designing, developing, and implementing complex web applications (business cloud storage)
- Specifying, testing, and implementing web services for provisioning new client accounts
- Creating technical documentation and visualizing processes according to ISO 27001
May 2011 - Sep 2011
5 monthsRegensburg, Germany
Diploma Thesis
E.ON Metering GmbH
- Conducting a threat analysis of the smart grid
- Developing a C# simulator to analyze dynamic electricity prices
Feb 2010 - Aug 2010
7 monthsMountain View, United States
Agile Software Tester
Avid Technology, Inc
- Investigating and documenting software defects
- Verifying bug fixes
- Performing pre-check-in reviews of software modules or builds
- Publishing test reports with detailed reviews of studio features
- Communicating with QA team members and developers in the USA, Munich, and Kyiv
Jul 2006 - Dec 2006
6 monthsRegensburg, Germany
Working Student
Reinecke Expertensystem GmbH
- Evaluating and integrating an open-source groupware solution
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2007 - Sep 2011
University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
Diploma in Computer Science (FH), Network Management, Wireless Communication and Networking, Information Security Management · Computer Science · Regensburg, Germany
Oct 2004 - Sep 2007
University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
Technical Computer Science · Regensburg, Germany
Gymnasium Kreuzheide
General Higher Education Entrance Qualification · Wolfsburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Scrum.org
Agile Software Development Professional Scrum Master
Scrum.org
Train-the-Trainer Certificate (AdA) per AEVO
IHK Regensburg
ISMS - ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor for ISO 27001 Audits based on IT Baseline Protection
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