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

Today’s markets are demanding people who can lead bring the power of innovation to market. Simply having a great idea is not enough. You must establish a value, determine what will delight your customers, build trust with a great team, steer through a myriad of stakeholder concerns, balance customer satisfaction and make it profitable along the way. Product Owners must have the deep the skills to navigate market pressures and channel the energy of well formed teams to deliver results.

This two-day Certified Scrum Product Owner course puts you on the path to become a great leader for a team or teams and steer that energy towards successful completion of products with real value. On completion, participants are registered as Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPOs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org).

Our course leverages our applied industry experience. We help you cut down the learning curve by sharing what we have learned in an applied immersion experience built from our industry experience. We incorporate techniques used successfully in product development efforts with teams as large as 80, and across numerous industry verticals, attendees will be better equipped to connect sprints into a smooth flow of value delivered and realize the promise of agile adaptation.

It is vital that today’s agile practitioners be able to retain what they have learned and apply it to their jobs. Our training leverages modern adult learning with both robust simulations and discussion. We train so that participants can put the ideas presented to immediate practical use.

• Product Management and Product road maps
• Release plans
• Metrics to steer by and inform decisions
• Leverage natural rhythms in your team’s environment
• Connect sprints together to achieve “long-term” gains
• Connect Capabilities – Stories and Team work to delivered value
• Set direction and validate outcomes with the right stakeholders
• Answer the demands of fiscal responsibility
• Tap the power of the Scrum framework to navigate extreme complexity
• Plan
• Product plans which balance strategic and tactical views
• Create plans from “non-agile” sources
• Build ROI in easy to track steps
• Use stories to maintain team focus
• Generate Sprint plans which adapt to emerging situations
• Balance the needs of the sprint, the team, the product, and the organization
• Learn the importance of the Product Demo
• Pulling critical business involvement to validate the team’s work
• Driving speed and quality
• Building trust and enthusiasm with stakeholders
• Run solid retrospectives
• Help the team take ownership of its process
• Engage teams awareness to foster self-organization
• Let Agile drive architecture instead of the other way around
• Nurture emergent behaviors to build Well-Formed Teams
• Raise awareness to the enterprise

This course is for people who have some background in agile project work. It is intended to help experienced agile practitioners focus on the difficult challenges of tuning aspects of their agile implementation:

• Product management and marketing professionals (directors and product managers, technical product managers, and product marketing managers)
• Product development professionals (analysts and user-experience/interaction/visual designers, application architects and designers, developers, and testers)
• Project management professionals (project managers and project/team leaders)
• Scrum course students (e.g. attendees of “Certified ScrumMaster”) desiring a "deep dive" into techniques for more effective Sprints
• ScrumMasters who wish to improve their team's sprint planning effectiveness
• Agile development team members who want to better support product owners
• Project managers who want to integrate agile plans with their organization's traditional project management needs
• Product Owners seeking better inform both strategic views and tactical team realities

Prerequisites

• Participants should have some familiarity with Agile, either by attending beginner Agile training or through some practical Agile experience.
• Participants should be prepared to review the problem domain background material prior to attending the session.

Specific Event Details

• Morning and Afternoon breaks will be served
• Lunch will be served