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.



Upcoming Training:
June 8-9, 2009 with Gabrielle Benefield , Aarhus Denmark
 
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, and systematically refine requirements. Additionally, you will know how you can increase productivity, level the workload, and steer the project proactively.

You can learn more about the importance of being an effective Product Owner here.
 
Objectives
Each participant is trained to assume the responsibilities of a Product Owner and to apply Scrum to optimize customer satisfaction and value creation. Audience
 
Product managers, innovation managers, marketing and sales staff, business analysts, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and the related practices.
 
Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with the basics of project and requirements management. It is desirable that the participants have already received some initial training or are experienced in applying Scrum. Participants are required to read the Scrum Primer; www.scrumprimer.com before they attend the class.
Contents
Introduction
  • Agile Values, Scrum Benefits and Origins
  • Scrum and Change
  • 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
  • The Product Owner as the Voice of the Customer and Value Stream Manager

Requirements Management

  • Understanding the Customer
  • The Product Vision
  • The Product Backlog
  • Determining the Release Scope
  • Stocking the Product Backlog
  • Prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • Refining the Product Backlog
  • User Stories on the Product Backlog

Release Management

  • Sustainable Pace
  • The Project Levers
  • Defining and Communicating Project Success
  • Release Management Strategies
  • 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 Management

  • 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

Large and 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
  • Distributed Scrum Project Tips

About the Trainer
 
Gabrielle Benefield is a certified Scrum Trainer with over 17 years experience building enterprise software at global companies.  She specializes in organisational change and enterprise level transformation. Gabrielle led the large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum and Agile at Yahoo!, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Latin America and is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile, Agile Product Management and Agile User Experience and Design. She is a co-founder of the Scrum Training Institute providing training and coaching in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia, and co-author of the Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).
 
Duration: 2 days. Both days from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Price:  DKR 12.500 pr. person ex. vat.  Travel and hotel is not included.
Dates:

8-9 Jun 2009
Location:

Århus, Denmark

Venue:

Trifork A/S Offices
Margrethepladsen 4, DK-8000 Århus C
Århus, Denmark
http://www.trifork.com

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