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Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Michael Stuedemann
Advance your career with high-value product management skills. CSPO® delves into the scrum framework, agile principles, and relentless focus on delivering customer value. Scrum Alliance-certified trainers have exceptional qualifications, including extensive product management experience. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.
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13 - 14 June, 2018 |
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8890 McGaw Rd. Columbia, MD 21045, US

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Scrum is the agile development process that allows teams to deliver usable software periodically throughout the life of the project, absorbing change and new requirements as the project proceeds.  As we move through the disciplines promoted by Scrum you will gain a comprehensive understanding of this agile product development methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a Product Owner.  While many of us may be accustomed to the practice of establishing value and priority across projects, the Product Owner needs to consider value and priority across the features of a single project.

Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while practicing the use of Scrum and the responsibilites of the Product Owner with a small team of classmates.

Our agenda includes, among other things, the following (see more details on the "agenda" tab):

  • what does it mean to be "agile?"
  • an overview of the Scrum Framework followed by a detailed simulation
  • establishing product expectations, including Viision as part of the Five Levels of Planning
  • using velocity and story points to project a schedule
  • prioitization considerations and methods
  • extracting value from our work while understanding the cost of change


 

About a week before coming to class you'll receive via email pre-requisite Scrum overview reading material.  Additionally, as part of the two-day class each participant will receive the following:

  • a hard copy of the presentation and exercise materials
  • a Scrum Reference card
  • planning poker cards
  • electronic access to all presentation and exercise materials from Winnow Management for one year
  • paid registration with the Scrum Alliance as Certified Scrum Product Owners
  • membership with the Scrum Alliance for two years

Class time runs from 8:30am to 5pm both days, and participants can claim up to 16 PDU's or Contact Hours with the PMI. These PDUs can also apply towards your 21 contact hour requirement for your Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) status.

"You continually maintained the interest of the class which allowed us a maximum learning experience." - University Professor

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This Certified Scrum Product Owner Class is being facilitated by a Winnow Management Certified Scrum Trainer.  The following are our training marketing partners who also offer registrations for this session:
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Short exercises and case studies will be scattered throughout the two-day session.  Longer exercises are detailed below.  Time spent on each topic will vary depending on the composition of the class and the interest in particular areas.

Agile Thinking:  In order for us to understand the benefits of Scrum and the nuances behind its framework, we begin with the history of agile methods and how relatively new thoughts in software development have brought us to Scrum.

  • How manufacturing has influenced software development
  • The origins of agile thinking
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • The complexity of projects
  • Theoretical Vs. Empirical processes overview
  • The “Iron Triangle” of Project Management

Exercise:  Continuous Improvement.  A project simulation is designed to expose different agile concepts in practice, allowing participants to experience work in an iterative, self-managed environment.

The Scrum Framework: Here we’ll ensure that we’re all working from the same foundational concepts that make up the Scrum Framework.

  • The different Scrum roles
  • He different Scrum artifacts
  • The different Scrum ceremonies

Exercise:  The 59-minute Scrum Simulation.  This popular exposure to Scrum asks us to work on a short project that lasts for just 59 minutes!  We’ll walk through all of the key steps under the Scrum framework as we work in project teams to deliver a new product.

Scrum Roles Deeper Dive:  Who are the different players in the Scrum game?  We’ll review checklists of role expectations in preparation for further detail later in our session.

  • The Team Member
  • The Product Owner
  • The Scrum Master

Exercise:  establishing product expectations.  This is a long-running exercise that carries through into our remaining sections that follow where we will discuss and practice various aspects of product and project planning in an agile Scrum environment.

The Product Backlog, Product Visioning, and Progressive Elaboration:  The Scrum Team must have an understanding of our Product Vision so they can make good decisions.  The Product Backlog is a reflection of that vision, and we’ll practice developing its content.

  • Defining the Product Vision
  • The Contents of The Product Backlog
  • Five Levels of Planning
  • Using User Stories
  • Bill Wake and the INVEST model
  • The Significance of Granularity
  • User Story Brainstorming
  • Introduction to Prioritization
  • Prioritization’s Impact on Time Management
  • Velocity and Story Points.  Since a Product Owner is responsible for monitoring progress, we’ll discuss and practice how to measure a Team’s progress in delivering product features.
    • Relative Effort
    • Velocity
    • Planning Poker and Story Points
    • Ideal Team Days
    • Team Capacity
    • Projecting a Schedule
    • Project Management Variables and Velocity

Prioritization Considerations and Methods:  Prioritization is the Product Owner’s number one tool for maximizing return on investment.  In this section we’ll review different techniques available to establish meaningful priorities..

  • Bringing Prioritization Into a Project
  • Themes and Relative Weighted Priority
  • Prioritization Questions and Considerations
  • The Value of Increasing our Understanding
  • The Value of Risk Reduction
  • Theme Scoring
  • Kano Modeling

Extracting Value and the Cost of Change:  This section touches on several different areas of interest that influence our ability to extract the most value from our projects.

  • Fixed Date Contracts
  • Product Backlog Refactoring (“Grooming”)
  • Canceling a Sprint
  • Productivity Drag Factors
  • Release Management
  • The Impact of Project Switching
  • The Impact of Continuous Forced Marches
  • Earned Value in an Agile Environment

Closing Topics:  We’ll wrap up with direction on where to go next with your Scrum experience, some recommended reading, Scrum reference sites, and our graduation ceremony.

This 2-day class is suitable for those who are responsible for setting product and financial direction on a Scrum project.  While current Certified ScrumMasters are welcome to attend, this class should not be considered as a next step after taking the CSM Class, but instead should be viewed as an alternative to the CSM Class.

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