For one year I joined the Picus BV as the product owner for the team.
The Picus BV with it´s headquarter in Achterveld, Netherlands has the vision to become Europe´s leading platform for the sharing of agricultural machinery ( 'Airbnb for Tractors' ). Complementing the Mechan Groep´s digital strategy for the coming decade, the vision is to accumulate the total machinery-potential of the Benelux-Area, make it transparent and available for sharing, while at the same time deriving data from all transactions to guide sales
I joined the startup as the product owner, with the following responsibilities:
- MVP-Planning: Deciding in collaboration with stakeholders from executive team and sales/marketing on MVP-functionality
- Roadmap ownership: Setting release-plans and prioritising development work
- Supervising development work: Constantly serving as the go-to guy for the 5-headed SCRUM-team, counselling and clarifying on any business-related issue
- Feature-conceptualisation: Deriving ideas for new features from existing MVP-Functionality and stakeholder, as well as market feedback
- Guiding stakeholders through technological decisions
- Backlog-Ownership: Full responsibility for writing user stories, prioritising issues and tracking resolvement
- Continuous reporting to executive team and steering committee