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Frequently Asked Questions

-         When do we start and end each day? 

The classroom opens at 8:30 AM each day and class will begin promptly at 9:00 AM. We will end at 5:30 PM each day.

-          What should I wear? 

Wear anything that makes you comfortable. There are no rules!

-          What should I bring? 

Just yourself. You don't need a laptop, although you are free to bring one.

-          Will there be food?

Yes, we will provide tea and cookies 3 times a day and both veg and non-veg lunch.

-          Is there something I should read before the workshop?

Yes, atleast read the Scrum guide that will be sent you when you register. You know what, its only 16 pages.

-          I'm an introvert who is not so big on the whole audience participation thing. Will this class make me uncomfortable?

Participation in any physical exercise is of course optional--in fact the role of "observer" is quite valuable, so feel free to participate at your ability and comfort levels. Remember, people are different and we value that!

-          What if I have more questions?

Feel free to contact MBS @ 080-4367-2003 or [email protected]

We will be learning the Product Ownership using Scrum. The whole course is split inot 4 Sprints with each Sprint trying to Answer following four questions:

1. Why are we building Products?
2. What are we building?
3. How much do we build?
4. How do we build?

We will pickup a sample Product and apply Discovery techniques to learn Product Discovery and run the workshop using Scrum to learn Scrum.

Sprint 1: Who is a Product Owner?

Value Hypothesis

• What is a Product?
• What is a Complex domain of Product?
• What is Cost of Delay and how to reduce it?
• What is Cost of Production and how to reduce it?

Who is a Product Owner?

• What are the skills required for a Product Owner?
• How does PO role map to other roles?
• What are the responsibilties of PO?
• How does PO role evolve over a period of time and what are the different patterns to have a PO role?

Sprint 2: Why and What are we building?

Product Envisioning

• Why do we need Vision? -  Learn the consequences of developing a Product without vision
• How to develop Product Vision?
  • Developing a Product Video?
  • Elevator Pitch to Shark Tank
  • News Paper Advertisement
  • Designing Product Brochure etc.
• Review examples of good Product Vision.

Product Chartering

• How to identify all the users of the Product?
• Identify the user activities that Product will support.
• Identify the product features that help the end users to perform the activities willingly.
• Develop impact stories for the Product.
• Learn to develop Product Canvas.

User Research

• Learn why User Research is important and how it pays off
• Learn different ways of conducting User Research and apply on class project
  • Observe users at their native place
  • Conduct interviews and surveys
  • Lean Startup approach
• Learn and develop User Experience Map for the class Project
• Learn and Develop User Personas for the class Project.
• Learn to develop User Stories out of User Experience Map

Sprint 3: How much do we build?

Story Mapping

• Learn and translate user voice from User Research into Product Features
• Learn why Splitting features into smaller deliverables are a necessity.
• Learn various splitting techniques
• Learn to prioritize the features based on user needs
  • Kano Model
  • Importance vs satisfaction
  • MUSCOW Technique
• Create an hypothesis to conduct Value Hypothesis
• Identify MVP and decide what kind of MVP to go with

Sprint 4: Managing Product Backlog

Story Pampering

• Learn and identify functional dependencies
• Learn different techniques for identifying Business Value for Product Features and practice them on class Project
  • User Voting
  • Factor of Acquisition and Retention
  • Business Value Estimation Game
• Learn to prioritize Product Features based on Business Value
  • Value vs Cost
  • Cost of Delay
• Learn to identify different types of Stakeholders and how to engage them
• Learn various refinement techniques to help development team understand what needs to be built.

This course is designed for anybody and every body who represent the end users, customers or sponsors and are responsible for maximizing the value of product. The respresentative list include:

• Product Managers
• Product Owners
• Business Analysts
• Directors
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• CXOs
• ScrumMasters who coach Product Owners.