Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Product Owner

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.

The Scrum Product Owner must lead the project strategically, collaborate with customers and team on a daily basis, and manage the business value.

The Scrum Product Owner takes back the accountability from the traditional project manager for delivering the right solution to the customer and end-user.

The CSPO course will provide you with the core of skills to support this new and awesome responsibility.

Dates:	22-23 Jun 2009
Location:	Cape Town, Western Cape
Venue:	BWM Pavilion Cnr. Portswood and Beach Road V&A Waterfront Cape Town, Western Cape http://www.thepavilion.co.za Get Directions
Price:	R9900 including VAT
Notes:	Course Content 1. Introduction to Agile Roots of Scrum Agile Manifesto Principles of Agile and Scrum Relationship to Lean and XP 2. Scrum Basics Scrum flow Heartbeat retrospectives Scrum roles 3. Starting an Agile project What is planning? Why plan? Common planning problems What is Agile planning? When do we do Agile planning and who plans? How much planning do we need in Agile? Group exercise: Visioning 4. Agile Requirements with user stories “Software development is a cooperative game of invention and communication.” Responsibility for requirements When to gather requirements User stories for requirements Card, Conversation, Confirmation Gathering stories Writing good user stories User role modelling Properties of good user stories Testing user stories A pattern for user stories Group exercise: Story-writing workshop 5. Understanding the product owner role Group exercise: 4 questions for product owners 3 Things product owners need Desirable product owner characteristics Product owner responsibilities Product owner is a hybrid Product owner smells 6. Creating the Agile release plan How should we prioritise stories? Group exercise: Determining value by desirability Estimating using size Group exercise: Sizing with Planning Poker When should we estimate? When should we re-estimate? Group exercise: Create the Agile release plan Grooming the product backlog 7. Agile Reporting and Metrics Why, when and what do we report? Who must do it? Creating, managing and understanding burn down charts Group exercise: Create a release burn down chart What Should We Measure and How? 8. Advanced Topics (if requested and time permits) Agile portfolio management Techniques for fixed price / time / scope projects Introduction to scaling Using tools

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Day 1:

08:30 Registration & coffee
09:00 Course start
18:00 End

Day 2:

08:30 Start
17:00 Course end

The CSPO course is intended for those already active in Scrum’s Product Owner role as well as managers, facilitators and coaches within organisations adopting Scrum.

A public training class offers significant benefits. You will work with people from different companies, you will share a lot of experiences, you will get to know new people and learn from their stories.