Weekend CSPO Workshop in Thames Valley (just outside London) with Simon Bennett

About the Course

Dates: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th March for this training workshop with certification

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. Many Product Owners come from business areas of the organisation and have limited familiarity with elements of software development, project management and agile methods that are critical to success in the Product Owner role. For these reasons, it is vitally important that Product Owners gain a solid understanding of their role and responsibilities as well as the knowledge, skills and tools to work effectively with Scrum teams.

Audience

This course is most suitable for Product Owners, Business Owners, Producers, business-focused Project Managers and staff assisting with requirements and their priority (e.g. Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts), solution architecture (e.g. Solution Architects and Tech Leads), planning and coaching (e.g. ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches).

Trainer

This course is taught by the highly experienced Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer Simon Bennett. Simon has 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.

Simon is a renowned speaker at Agile and Scrum conferences and User Groups, most recently presenting the London Scrum Gathering, South Africa Scrum Gathering (including the closing keynote) and Agile2011.

Course Outline

Part A: Scrum Framework

Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to understand the Scrum framework so that I can work in harmony with it."

• Agility
• Introducing Scrum
• Timeboxing
• The Empirical Journey
• Team and ScrumMaster
• Product Owner Role
• Defining "Done"
• Undone Work Debt

Part B: Activities and Interaction

Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to known when and how I should interact with other participants so that I can keep on top of my day-to-day work."

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

Part C: Shaping the Product

Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to shape my product in an agile way to help ensure that we build the right thing."

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

Part D: Release Management

Story: "As a Product Owner, I want to manage releases using agile techniques to help me maximise Return on Investment."

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

Registration

Please select the "Register Now!" button on the right to register online. Please contact us if you would like to pay by invoice

Pricing

An early bird price of £825 + VAT is available if you register by 9th March.

£895 + VAT from 10th March onwards.

Discounts for between-jobs, self-employed, charities and groups available, please contact us.

Price per seat includes:

• two full days training with a highly experienced agile practitioner
• a letter of course completion that may be submitted to your employer and/or a professional body (PMI/ACS) for PDUs
• full 3-course buffet catering during the course
• access to online electronic resources following the course
• 2 years membership with the Scrum Alliance

Recommended Reading

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love by Roman Pichler, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010.