Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Course duration: 4 days.

Certification conditions: In order to be certified, a participant may be late or absent for not more than 1 hour and only with prior permission from the trainer.
 

Approximate work schedule:

• 09:30 - registration, the opening of the day

• 10:00 - the beginning of the program

• 13:00 - one-hour lunch break

• 16:00 - the closing of the day

Other features of the learning flow:

Coffee breaks are held in mode 90/15 min. or 60/10 min.
Lunchtime is a matter of discussion with the group.

Day 1: PRODUCT DISCOVERY

1. Set the Stage
   Meet colleagues & trainers, understand learning process: agreements, tools & visual artifacts.

2. Choose a Product Idea
   Learn simple brainstorming techniques, practice teamwork towards common goals and make quick group decisions.

3. Create a High-level Vision
   Learn how to obtain a high-level vision of the product idea quickly and present it to potential users, investors & team members.

4. Understand Users
   Identify your assumptions about customers and create a clear picture of their needs and goals.

5. Conduct Interviews
   Prepare for productive interviews with potential customers, which will help you to test key hypotheses about them.

6. Learn from Customer Development
   Collaborate as a team to analyse results of the interviews, sort new ideas, and test assumptions about User Persona.

7. Craft your Value Proposition
   Identify what makes your customers use your product, so that you would focus on the significant value proposition.

8. Create Hi-level Requirement Model and cut MVP
   Define a scope of your first Release, using the Story Map and focusing on the Minimum Viable Product.

9. Improve your understanding of the PO Role
   Analyse the learning process and reflect on your understanding of the Product Owner’s role.

Day 2: AGILE DELIVERY

1. Inspire Changes using Agile Values & Principles
   Understand benefits of Agile Software Development and employ them while changing management process in your organization;

2. Understand Scrum Flow
   Find Agile values and principles behind Scrum framework and see it as an ecosystem of roles, meetings and artifacts.

3. Manage Stakeholders Expectations
   Clarify expectations, prioritize requirements and manage communication channels between stakeholders and development team.

4. Prioritize all Job-To-Be-Done
   Find who influences your decision making process and identify helpful facilitation techniques.

5. Work regularly on Product Requirements
   Learn Product Backlog basics such as different types of PBI, Acceptance criteria, etc. Take a look at requirements decomposition as a part of grooming a backlog and preparing for planning.

6. Dive Deep in Scrum Role Playing
   Define Scrum Roles, clarify their responsibilities and rights and discuss common misconceptions. Describe their interaction and collaboration during Scrum meetings.

7. Agree on Definition of Done
   Learn DoD as an important tool enabling the team to maintain quality, predict its capacity, build potentially shippable products in sprints, and improve over time.

8. Determine Release Dates and Plan
   Understand principles of mid-term planning, work effort estimation & team capacity.  Learn how to work both with changing requirements and estimated release dates.

9. Improve your PO Role understanding
   Analyse the learning process and reflect on your understanding of the Product Owner’s role.

If you work on a ‘product side’ as a Product Owner or Product Manager, play any role in Product Team such as Business Analyst,  User Interaction Designer, or helping Product Owner as a scrum team member - this class fits your needs.

The program is specially designed to integrate participants with different experiences and roles. By learning fundamental concepts, sharing different stories and practicing concrete tools, you will improve both - your product ownership mindset and skills.

The format provides various opportunities to ‘taste’ the Product Owner’s role through many workshops, simulations, and group discussions. Be ready for hard fun!