Learn the essentials of working as a Product Owner in this two-day class.
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 understand the Product Owner role, its authority and responsibility, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles. You will be able to create a product vision, stock and manage the product backlog, prioritise the backlog, and systematically refine requirements. You will also be able to create a realistic release and track the project progress.
Objectives
Each participant is trained to assume the responsibilities of a Certified Scrum Product Owner.
Audience
Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and the related practices.
Prerequisites
Participants have to be familiar with the basics of project and requirements management. It is desirable that the participants have already some initial training or experience in applying Scrum. Participants are required to read the following article and books prior to class:
- 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
- Companies Using Scrum
Scrum Process and Roles
- Scrum Flow
- Scrum Roles: Product Owner, Team, ScrumMaster
- Product Owner Characteristics
- A Day in the Life of the Product Owner
Visioning and The Product Vision
- The Product Vision
- Benefits of the Product Vision
- The Vision in Action
- Desirable Qualities
- Techniques for Creating a Powerful Vision
- The Kano Model
The Product Backlog
- Requirements in Scrum
- Product Backlog Characteristics
- Product Backlog Structure and Form
- Stocking the Backlog
- Grooming the Backlog
- Prioritising the Backlog
- Getting the Backlog Ready for Sprint Planning
- Progressive Requirements Decomposition
- Refining Requirements
- Collaborative Requirements Workshops
- User Stories on the Product Backlog
- Non-functional Requirements
Release Management
- Sustainable Pace
- The Project Levers
- Estimating Product Backlog Items with Story Points and Planning Poker
- Choosing the Right Sprint Length
- Determining Velocity
- Creating the Release Plan
- Tracking and Reporting the Project Progress
Sprints
- Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
- Formulating Powerful Sprint Goals
- Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Understanding the Sprint Progress
Portfolio Management
- The Planning Onion
- Why Portfolio Management Matters
- Levelling the Demand
- Portfolio Management Steps
- The Portfolio Bubble Chart
Largeand Distributed Scrum Projects
- 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
- Dispersed Teams
- Distributed Scrum Project Tips
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