Certified Scrum Product Owner

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.

Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI). The Product Owner combines the traditional project manager and the product manager roles in one person.

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective Product Owner. At the end of the class, you will understand how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction. You will be able to create a realistic release plan, stock the product backlog, write user stories, refine requirements. You will also know how you can increase productivity, level the workload, and steer the project proactively.

Objectives

Audience

Prerequisites

• Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison Wesley. 2004
• Ken Schwaber. Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. 2004

Contents

Introduction

• Agile Values, Scrum Benefits and Origins
• Scrum and Change
• Companies Using Scrum

• Scrum Flow
• Scrum Roles: Product Owner, Team, ScrumMaster
• Product Owner Characteristics
• A Day in the Life of the Product Owner
• The Product Owner as the Voice of the Customer and Value Stream Manager

From Product Idea to Successful Product Launch

• The Development Stage of the Agile Product Lifecycle
  
• Product Idea, Company Strategy, Product Vision, Product Backlog and Release

Customer Needs and the Product Vision

• The Product Vision
  
• Product Vision Contents
• Vision Scope and Minimal Marketable Feature Set
  
• Understanding the Customer
  
• Techniques for Creating a Powerful Vision
  
• The Kano Model

The Product Backlog

• Requirements in Scrum
  
• Product Backlog Characteristics
  
• Stocking the Backlog
  
• Prioritising the Backlog
  
• Grooming the Backlog
  
• User Stories on the Product Backlog

• Sustainable Pace
• Estimating Product Backlog Items Using Story Points and Planning Poker
• Choosing the Sprint Length and Determining Velocity
• Creating the Release Plan
• Tracking the Project Progress

• Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
• Formulating Powerful Sprint Goals
• Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective
• Understanding the Sprint Progress

• Brook’s Law
• Organic Growth and Conway’s Law
• Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner Team
• Team Set-up
• Multi-team Planning and Coordination
• Shared Norms and Assets
• Distributed Scrum Project Tips

• The Planning Onion
• Why Multi-Project Management Matters
• Levelling the Demand
• Multi-Project Management Steps
• The Portfolio Bubble Chart