PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Feature Analyst is accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with the business stakeholders, and working within the feature team to ensure these are delivered effectively
Key responsibilities
Prioritise and Plan work activities within the Feature Team
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Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
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Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system
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Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration
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Create relevant user stories
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, / UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements
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Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
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Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritisation and estimation.
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Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and retrospective).
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Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions.
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Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories are assigned to epics.
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Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
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Work very closely with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes and content are optimally intuitive to end-users
Manage the Backlog for the Feature Team
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Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified, outlined and prioritized before the next sprint.
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Identify missing requirements
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Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products.
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Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
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Review user stories with the Product Owner with a strategic point of view
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Capture and keep the business and data rules up-to-date
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Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are prioritised to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration
Key requirements
Qualifications
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Degree in IT & Computer Science
Experience
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Knowledge of Agile methodology
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3 – 4 Years in Information Technology
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Experience with requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management
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3 – 4 Years in Business Analysis and Design
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Understanding business needs and be able to analyse requirements
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Analyse business needs and provide solutions
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