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.

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 understand the Product Owner role, its authority and responsibility, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles. You will be able to create a product vision, stock and manage the product backlog, prioritise the backlog, and systematically refine requirements. You will also be able to create a realistic release and track the project progress.

Objectives

Each participant is trained to assume the responsibilities of a Certified Scrum Product Owner.

Audience

Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of product management. Participants are required to read the following books prior to class:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165 
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

Contents

Introduction

• Agile Values
• Scrum Flow
• Definition of Done
• Empirical Management

Scrum Roles

• The Product Owner and Product Owner Characteristics
• A Day in the Life of the Product Owner
• Product Owner Hierarchies and Teams
• The Team
• The ScrumMaster

The Product Vision

• The Product Vision
• Benefits of the Product Vision
• The Vision in Action
• Desirable Qualities
• Techniques for Creating a Powerful Vision

The Product Backlog

• Requirements in Scrum
• Product Backlog Characteristics
• Product Backlog Structure and Form
• Stocking the Backlog
• Grooming the Backlog
• Prioritising the Backlog
• Getting the Backlog Ready for Sprint Planning
• Progressive Requirements Decomposition
• Refining Requirements
• Collaborative Requirements Workshops
• User Stories on the Product Backlog
• Non-functional Requirements

Release Management

• Sustainable Pace
• The Project Levers
• Estimating Product Backlog Items with Story Points and Planning Poker
• Choosing the Right Sprint Length
• Determining Velocity
• Creating the Release Plan
• Tracking and Reporting the Project Progress

Overview of Sprints

• Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
• Formulating Powerful Sprint Goals
• Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective
• Understanding the Sprint Progress

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)

• 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
• Dispersed Teams
• Distributed Scrum Project Tips

Portfolio Management (optional)

• The Planning Onion
• Why Portfolio Management Matters
• Levelling the Demand
• Portfolio Management Steps
• The Portfolio Bubble Chart