About

Apar Agarwal is an Agile Product Owner with over 4 years of experience in the field. He has acted as a liaison between business, sales, and IT teams to refine products and incorporate features based on market demands. Apar has partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process while ensuring the product team understands the direction and vision. He has worked towards preparing requirements management plans, business and functional requirement documents, and created data flow diagrams and process flows to facilitate better system understanding. Apar has conducted brainstorming sessions with the development team to actively involve them during the requirements stage level analysis. He has created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's life cycle. Apar has translated features into user stories within the team’s backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements. He has conducted and participated in various agile meetings, including Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring open communication and good participation by all team members. Apar has worked directly with the development team, answering questions related to acceptance criteria and ensuring that the work performed meets customer expectations. He has worked with developers and QA to refine user stories and assisted the Scrum Master to identify and implement best practices and improvements to the product development process. Apar has collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories. He has articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams and managed backlog of user stories for 2 products simultaneously. Apar has established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams. He has applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process. Apar has worked for companies like aeries, xoriant, and infogain, where he has gained experience in managing project estimations, planning, costing, forecasting, reporting, and managing releases. Apar has a PGDM Executive degree in Operations Management and Supervision from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad. He also has a XIIth Board degree in CBSE Science from St. Mary's Convent School, Dhampur. Apar's relevant experience includes 4.94 years of experience in the field.