Certified Scrum Product Owner®

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·  5 or more Participants 12% Discount
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The course is delivered by 1 most experienced enterprise agile coach and trainer: Bill Li.

Bill Li, CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), and consultant & coach active around the globe, Managing Principal of UPerform Consulting Group.  With over 25 years of cross-functional experiences in IT sector, Bill is among the pioneers who promoted Scrum and Agile since 2007, and is active contributor and speaker at agile community in China and across the world, including major Scrum and Agile conferences.

Bill enjoys developing people and organizations through high quality Scrum and Agile training and consulting/coaching services.  His passion lies in helping clients’ product development organizations and teams to become more effective, having less waste and fewer impediments in their processes, less pressure, higher enjoyment, and producing better product and services, in an open, transparent, creative, and self-organized environment. 

Bill translated Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber into simplified Chinese and published it in 2007. He also co-translated Ken's next book on Scrum & Enterprise and Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied, together with other 2 titles in Project Management area. Bill is MBA from Schulich School of Business, York University, and Bachelor of Engineering from South China University of Technology. He lives in Shanghai, China and Vancouver, BC, Canada.

This course is organized by UPerform and SimpliAxis - Leading Provider of Scrum and Agile Training and Coaching services. With outstanding references from highly satisfied corporate clients and individual CSM and CSPO students, we are your clear choice for all of your Scrum and Agile training needs.

Agenda:

1. Product ownership Thinking exercise: Success in product development/project management and what brings that?
2. Great product ownership: Parable of Stone video interview by Steve Jobs
3. Agile Foundation Review 
   1. Agile is a state
   2. Empirical v.s. Defined Process
   3. High performance team
   4. Exercise: Agile Culture – Competitive Values Framework
   5. Agile Values and Principles
   6. The healthy eco-system of product delivery
   7. Agile Product Development/Delivery Life Cycle: the Risk-Value-Tail curve
   8. Scrum: The Delivery Framework & The Learning Framework
4. Start with WHY – The Golden Circle
5. Product Visioning 
   1. Characteristics of good vision
   2. IRACIS – Connecting Vision and Business Goals
   3. Exercise: Lean Canvas or Product Vision Board for product visioning and positioning
6. Impact Mapping Framework Intro: WHY-WHO-HOW-WHAT 
7. The WHO – customer insights 
   1. Actors: different approaches
   2. User roles and Personas
   3. Exercise: Defining your WHO and create a Persona
8. The HOW – the real Impact to/of your customers and users 
   1. Vs. Epic and Theme
   2. Where is the IMPACT (from 2 different perspectives)
   3. Empathy on your WHOs
   4. Exercise: create your HOWs
9. The WHAT – the solution to bring the IMPACT 
   1. DEEP principle of healthy Product Backlog
   2. Exercise: what types of items in Product Backlog?
   3. User Stories & Technical Stories
   4. 3C model & INVEST principle and vertical slicing
   5. Exercise: create your WHATs (your PBIs)
   6. Product Backlog granularity
   7. User story and acceptance criteria
   8. Different approaches in breaking down requirements
   9. Backlog Refinement:  The S.Q.A.M – an effective pattern for requirement group workshop (Scope-Questions-Assumptions-Mockup)
10. Prioritization and Ordering the Product Backlog 
    1. Do you really need those features: the art of “Say No”
    2. Different Techniques: MoSCoW, Simple Prioritization, Kano Model, Theme Scoring etc.
    3. Value, Cost, Risk, Time-to-Market, Dependencies and Learning
11. Video: Design Thinking by Ideo
12. Validation of your ideas with Validation Board
13. Exercise: Story Map and Product Roadmap
14. MMF & MVP (Minimum Marketable Feature & Minimum Viable Product)
15. Release Planning, Tracking and Sprints 
    1. Agile project triangle
    2. Agile Planning and Estimation overview
    3. Release Planning
    4. Release Burn-down and Release Burn-up
    5. DoR: Definition of Ready for a Sprint
    6. DoD: Definition of Done (different levels?)
16. Scrum Framework Review Exercise: Create your own Scrum
17. Scrum Simulation (Optional): During one Sprint, the 4 Scrum meetings
18. The Scrum Roles and Product Owner 
    1. Exercise: Create your Product Owner
    2. Team & ScrumMaster
    3. Desired characteristics of Product Owner
    4. Product Owner’s collaboration with self-organizing team
    5. Product Owner’s collaboration with others in the eco-system
    6. Video: The Product Owner in a nut-shell
19. Scaling Product Ownership in a large organization
20. The balancing art of Product Owner and great Product Ownership
21. Final Q&A

This 2-day class is targeted to individuals practicing or looking to perform as a Product Owner or member of a Scrum Team including the ScrumMaster, but is also highly valuable for anyone interested in Scrum including Product Managers, Business Analysts, Line and Functional Managers, Software Quality Assurance Team Members, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Development Team Members, , Software Testing Team Members, etc.