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.

February 5-6, 2009: Norway

9-5pm

Course Description

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

• How to be an effective Product Owner
• Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
• How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
• Agile Release planning and Tracking

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.

Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon team and receive a bound copy of the training materials.

Audience

Product Owners, managers or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.

Pre-requisite

Prior knowledge of Scrum and Agile methods is required. You should have attended the Certified ScrumMaster class and/or have actively worked on a Scrum team or have read Scrum and Agile books and understand the terminology and have a good understanding of the basics. At a minimum attendees should read the Scrum Primer found at: http://www.scrumprimer.com

Class Agenda

Scrum 101 refresher

• Scrum cycle, roles, planning cycle
  

Kickoff

• Research inputs
• Product Vision
• Exercise: Create a one-pager
• Customer insights; personals, field studies
• Brainstorming and affinity mapping
  

Gathering requirements - inputs

• Exercise: Ideas brainstorm
• Stakeholder & user interviews
• Rapid scenarios
• Scenario exercise
  

Prioritizing

• Kano analysis
• Exercise: Release strategy
• Relative weighting
  

Writing requirements

• Product backlog building
• Exercise: User story writing
  

Estimating

• Story points and Ideal days
• Exercise: Planning poker estimation
  

Tracking

• Sprint and release burndown charts
  

Release Planning

• Incremental release plans
• Velocity
• Timeboxed and Scopeboxed releases
• Exercise: Simulated Scrum game

Optional modules:

• Reporting
• Scaling Scrum
• Testing
• Agile Design
• Budgets and forecasts
• Agile contracts

About the Instructor

Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand through Kanjeo.  Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia.  She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).

Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies.  Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.

Gabrielle provides training to a number of companies around the world and is currently based in London.

Dates:	5-6 Feb 2009
Location:	Oslo, Norway
Venue:	Bygdøy allé 21 0262 Oslo Oslo, Norway http://kurs.iterate.no/courses/5 Get Directions
Price:	See registration