Certified Scrum Product Owner

Weekend Intensive CSPO Workshop in the Thames Valley

Though each CSPO course varies depending on the instructor, all Certified Scrum Product Owner courses focus on Scrum from a product owner's perspective. Graduates will receive the CSPO designation. All CSPO course are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers.

This is an intensive Product Owner workshop for participants with a basic understanding of Scrum prior to this course

The Product Owner role is critical to maximising Return on Investment from agile projects and is one of the most challenging and rewarding agile roles. The Product Owner guides the Scrum team as the voice of "what to build" representing Customers as well as Business and Development staff. Strong Product Ownership is key to successful Scrum transformations.

In this course Product Owners will gain a solid understanding of their role and responsibilities as well as the knowledge, skills and tools to work effectively with Scrum teams. A highly effective combination of facilitator presentation, group exercises and discussion will be used to develop an in depth understanding of the Product Owner role.

About the Trainer

This course is taught by Simon Bennett a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer with over 20 years real-world experience in software and hardware development, and Chair of the Product Owner Panel at the Munich Scrum Gathering.

From 2008 through 2010 Simon was also the Product Owner for the Scrum for Team System TFS process template.

Simon has considerable experience in organisational agile adoption, large scale Scrum and using Scrum in an offshore environment, as well as successfully blending Scrum with other methods including UCD. Over the last 12 years have been focused on using Agile frameworks and methods including Scrum, XP, Crystal & Kanban. 

His wealth of experience and passion for Product Ownership brings a unique depth and flavour to the course, as students will learn from real world case studies rather than only theory and simulations.

With regard to delivery, Simon is also a seasoned trainer with over two decades of experience, and a regular speaker at major international conferences. Recent engagements include:

Scrum Gathering South Africa September 2010
  “The Incentive Trap” (5 hour deep dive)
  Opening Address

Agile 2010, Orlando August 2010
  “The Incentive Trap” (3 hour invited tutorial)

Scrum Gathering Orlando March 2010
  “The Incentive Trap”

PDC 2009, Los Angeles
  “Scrum in the Enterprise with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010”
  http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT09

Scrum Gathering Munich 2009
  “Best Practice in Agile Product Ownership” – Panel Chair 
  “The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
  Conference Selection Committee Member

Agile 2009, Chicago
  “The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
  “Why do (so many) testers (still) hate Agile?”

PDC 2008, Los Angeles
“Agile development on the Microsoft Platform”

Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2008
  “Lean vs. Agile: Stop fighting, start delivering”

About the Venue

A hearty lunch is provided both days along with food and beverage to sustain the class throughout the weekend. 

There is plenty of free parking. Sunningdale is on the London Waterloo - Reading line and is approximately mid way between the two.

Fully catered accommodation on the grounds is also available and is a popular option, please contact DeVere for details.

http://www.devere.co.uk/our-locations/sunningdale-park.html

Activities and Interaction

• Product Backlog
• Constraint Stories
• Sprint Planning
• Sprinting
• Sprint Review
• Scrum Values

Shaping the Product

• Envisioning
• User Roles
• User Stories
• Story Mapping
• Prioritisation

Release Management

• Release Planning
• Grooming the Product Backlog
• Agile Release Management
• Next Steps

This course is most suitable for Product Owners, Product Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches, as well as any staff working with requirements.