Learn the essentials of working as a Product Owner in this two-day class.

Description:

The Certified Scrum Product Owner course is a 2-day course introducing the concepts of agile business leadership using the Scrum methodology.  Successful participants will become Certified Scrum Product Owners, a first step in the journey towards this more adaptive form of business leadership.   This course is based on 23 years of industry experience, including nearly 10 years of experience in the role of Product Owner/Agile Customer and teaching/mentoring others in this role.

Goals:

Prepare participants to effectively participate on projects using Scrum and to assume the Product Owner role.

Format:

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• ·        What problem are we trying to solve?
• ·        History of software improvement approaches
• ·        History of Scrum
• ·        Comparing Scrum with "Traditional" approaches

Values and Principles of Agile and Scrum

• ·        Role of values in Agile organizations
• ·        Examples of Agile value systems
• ·        Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• ·        Declaration of Interdependence

Organizational Issues

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Delegating and Product Owner Proxies
• Building the Stakeholder Community

Succeeding in the role of Product Owner

• Good and Bad Behavior
• Tales from the Trenches

Guiding the Project

• The Product Backlog: User Stories and other approaches
• Determining what is valuable
• Product Vision
• Release Planning; Minimal Marketable Feature, Alignment to Stakeholders

Guiding the Sprint

• Preparing for a Sprint
• During the Sprint:  Attendance; What to look for; Linking stakeholders to the team; Reacting to change and new information
• Observing an effective Scrum Team
• Sprint Review:   Participation, Evaluating Results; Leading the Stakeholders;  Acceptance of the Deliverable
• Sprint Retrospectives: Attendance, Helping the Team

Audience:

This course is targeted to the following audience(s):

This course is designed for team members and managers involved in projects who may assume the Product Owner role. Typically the Product Owner is a product manager, business analyst, or business sponsor.  In large organizations, it is recommended that Directors who oversee IT projects  or functional areas also participate.