Kathleen Janz
Product Owner, Team Lead, Account Manager
Product Owner, Team Lead, Account Manager
evia consulting GmbH & evia solutions GmbH
Responsible for the development of two CRM products used by several international clients:
Voucher system (gift cards available in the retail online shop, reloadable with credit)
Coupon system (online coupons for incentives in the webshop and paper coupons for stores)
Product ownership towards clients, main point of contact and account manager
Leading and coordinating development projects, including technical migration of an acquired company’s IT systems into our own
Responsible for security and operations infrastructure; coordination of external vendors
Constant communication with management to ensure alignment of product and company goals
Creating product roadmaps, coordination with software developers
Requirements management, user story refinement
Coordinating cross-team work with seven other teams in close proximity
Interface management with POS systems, webshop, and external providers
Supporting clients with analyses of voucher issuance and redemption, business-relevant reporting for annual financial statements and provisions
Involvement in the roll-out of a new webshop platform in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy; integrating products and implementing custom requests
Team Lead:**
First point of contact for all software developer concerns
Served as Scrum Master for 1½ years, including preparing and facilitating retrospectives and moderating all Scrum meetings
Achievements:**
Aligned team work with sprint goals under the principle “outcome over output”
Restructured a large team into two smaller Scrum teams
Built a team identity and defined vision, mission, and purpose
Planned and facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (review, retrospective, planning)
Coordinated data migration from third-party systems after a company merger
Introduced new reporting
Early detection of fraud cases and quick development of sustainable countermeasures
Rolled out the new webshop platform in four countries
Drafted a microservices concept across eight development teams; aligned services with business domains
Java Developer
BWS Consulting Group
Implementing business requirements in Java
Participating in the refinement process to turn requirements into user stories with the Product Owner and the team
Designing solution approaches and defining sub-tasks
Creating sprint plans to deliver the stories
Providing 3rd level support for our developed software
Migrating our software to new hardware, including testing with the business department
Coordinating server migrations with other component sites
Developing a tool for code quality measurement (identifying code smells to simplify code reviews)
Achievements:**
Migrated a component site’s software to a new server
Resolved various 3rd level issues
Coordinated multiple server migrations
Developed a tool to improve code reviews
In my role as Product Owner, I help my clients develop a product that keeps getting better. I involve stakeholders and users in the development process, foster direct communication between product developers and stakeholders, and make sure everyone takes responsibility for the product outcome. As a former software developer, I speak the developers’ language and can bridge the gap between business and development.
Master of Science · Business Informatics · Germany
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science; focus areas: programmatic solutions for logistics problems, SEO and SEA, C programming · Logistics and Information Management · Germany
PSM I
Scrum.org
PSPO I
Scrum.org
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