Erkan Özdemir

Consultant (Product Owner / Business Analyst)

Kartal, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Consultant (Product Owner / Business Analyst) at Self-employed
    Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    ▪ Boyner / Product Owner (7 months) ▪ A101 / Business Analyst Mentor (3 months) ▪ Monster Notebook / Product Owner (12 months)

  • Senior Product & Delivery Advisor at Reve Partners
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Turkcell Technology (Istanbul, Turkey)
    • Associate Principal Analyst (E-Commerce)
      Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 · 6 mos

    • Master Expert Analyst (E-Commerce)
      Dec 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

       Collaborate with product architect and product marketing teams to translate business requirements into user stories with acceptance criterias for the development teams to implement  Interact with and fully understands end users and their needs by retrieving feedbacks. Has a deep understanding of customer problems and identifies opportunities for improvement.  Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation  Work with project managers and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles and ship high-quality features at the end of each sprint in an agile development process.  Determine and drive the MVP (minimal viable product).  Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are designing great features for our partners  Manage both internal and external product development teams (vendor management)  Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams  Develop KPI concepts, dashboards and measure the impact of newly released features with Data-Driven mindset.  Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency  Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product  Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases and produce documentation and training to support stakeholders.

  • Senior Product Owner at Etstur
    Feb 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

     Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation  Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products  Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team  Conduct backlog grooming meetings with analysts and scrum team  Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team  Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release  Manage both internal and external product development teams (vendor management)  Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features  Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations  Analyze usage data of product features and determine points those will be focused and improved to add more value into product  Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components those will add good value to a product  Constantly exchange ideas with product owners within the organization  Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary  Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns.

  • Lead Product & Project Manager at Magis Technology
    Mar 2014 - Feb 2018 · 4 yrs

     Product and Project management for mobile applications (mainly), B2B and B2C products/services  Act as “Product Owner on vendor side” of products & projects  Evaluation of new technologies, mobile market trends and business value of ideation outputs  Analyze and evaluate customer needs, define requirements for products/services and prepare project plan  Manage project plan which include all development process, technical integrations or implementations, budgets, tests and finalization of products/services  Managed clients, sub-contractors and/or internal cross functional teams responsible for delivering project outcomes on time and with quality. Mainly in agile/scrum frame  Evaluation of new technologies, mobile market trends and business value of ideation outputs