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Kathleen Janz
Product Owner, Team Lead, Account Manager
Experience
Sep 2020 - Present
5 years 5 monthsProduct Owner, Team Lead, Account Manager
Evia Consulting GmbH & Evia Solutions GmbH
- Product responsibility towards clients, point of contact and account manager
- Leading and coordinating development projects carried out with and for these clients, in addition to product development. This included, for example, the technical migration of a purchased company's IT systems into our own systems.
- Responsible for security and operational infrastructure; coordinating external companies handling related tasks.
- Constant exchange with management to ensure alignment of product and company goals.
- Creating product roadmaps and coordinating with software developers.
- Requirements management and user story refinement.
- Coordinating cross-team work. In addition to my own team, seven other teams worked in the immediate environment.
- Interface management with point-of-sale systems in stores, webshop, and external providers.
- Customer support by providing reports on voucher issuance and redemption, as well as business-relevant reporting for annual financial statements and reserves.
- Participated in the rollout of a new webshop platform in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy, including integrating my products and implementing country-specific custom requirements.
- Team lead: First point of contact for all matters related to software developers.
- Over a period of 1.5 years, took on Scrum Master tasks: removing impediments, preparing and conducting retrospectives, facilitating all Scrum meetings.
- Aligning team work to achieve sprint goals; principle "Outcome over output".
- Restructuring a large team into two smaller Scrum teams.
- Developing team identity, defining vision, mission, and purpose.
- Planning, conducting, and facilitating all Scrum events (review, retrospective, planning).
- Coordinating the takeover of data from third-party systems after company merger.
- Implementing new reporting.
- Early detection of fraud cases; rapid development of sustainable countermeasures in collaboration with software developers.
- Drafting concepts for microservices in an environment of eight development teams; aligning services with business domains.
Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
2 years 8 monthsJava Developer
BWS Consulting Group
- Implementing business requirements in Java.
- Participating in the refinement process to formulate requirements into stories together with the Product Owner and the team.
- Developing solution approaches and defining sub-tasks.
- Setting up a sprint plan to implement the stories.
- Providing third-level support for the developed software.
- Migrating the software to new hardware, including testing with the business unit.
- Project management: Coordinating the server migration in collaboration with other component factories.
- Developing software for measuring source code quality (identifying code smells to simplify code reviews).
- Migrating the software of a component factory to a new server.
- Resolving various third-level issues.
- Coordinating further server migrations.
- Developing a tool to improve code reviews.
Summary
In my role as Product Owner, I help my clients develop a continually improving product. To do this, I integrate stakeholders and users into the development process, encourage direct communication between product developers and stakeholders, and help ensure that everyone involved can take responsibility for the product outcome. As a former software developer, I speak the developers' language and can bridge the gap between business and development.
Skills
Management Skills
- Team Lead
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
Communication
- Results-oriented Facilitation (Reviews, Test Sessions, Client Approvals)
- Transparency
Software Development
- Java, C
- Sql
Tools
- Ms Teams, Zoom, Slack
- Jira, Confluence, Trello
- Miro
- Git, Svn
- Office (Google Docs, Ms)
- Eclipse, Intellij, Squirrel
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
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Master of Science · Business Informatics
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science · Logistics and Information Management · Germany
Certifications & licenses
PSM I
scrum.org
PSPO I
scrum.org
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