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About the Course
The Product Owner role is critical to maximising Return on Investment from Scrum projects and is perhaps the most challenging role to fulfill. Many Product Owners come from business areas of the organisation and have limited familiarity with software development and agile methods. For these reasons, it is vitally important that Product Owners gain a solid understanding of their role and responsibilities as well as the knowledge, skills and tools to work effectively with Scrum teams.
Compared with the more frequently offered Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course, the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course is primarily concerned with agile management of scope, schedule, resources, quality and risk to maximise return on investment as is the role of the Product Owner. The practice level of the Scrum Framework is covered in depth as well as User Stories as a tool for requirements elicitation and communication. This course is most suitable for Product Owners and staff who support Product Owners with requirements, planning or coaching.
Course Outline
- The Scrum Framework
- Activities
- Artefacts
- Roles
- Core Concepts and Culture
- Scrum Principles
- Values and Culture
- The Product Owner Role
- Responsibilities
- Day-to-day Practicalities
- Envisioning
- Product Vision
- Setting Goals
- User Modelling
- Requirements Management
- User Stories
- Conditions of Satisfaction
- Defining "Done"
- Splitting Stories
- Grooming the Product Backlog
- Prioritisation Techniques
- Getting to "Ready"
- Managing the Release
- Planning and Review
- Release Planning
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Review
- Organisational Concerns
- Agile Product Engineering
- Portfolio Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Reporting
About the Trainer
Rowan Bunning is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a pioneer of Scrum in Australasia. With a background in extreme programming, object oriented development and scrum, Rowan became Australia’s first Certified ScrumMaster and first Certified Scrum Practitioner. He has built extensive experience leading, coaching, and training organisations in Scrum across Australasia and Europe, including European scrum leader ‘EMC Conchango’. As a Certified Scrum Trainer he has a fantastic track record for running comprehensive and high value scrum courses. His courses include the two day Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses with associated accreditations with the Scrum Alliance. He also offers one day courses on Effective User Stories and Agile Estimating and Planning as licensed from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software – author of the most popular books on these topics.
Through his company Software WithStyle, Rowan delivers consulting and training helping a diverse range of organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand to succeed with Agile. Frustrated with the substantial waste, poor delivery track-record and lack of trust that he sees on many IT projects, Rowan is passionate about the enormous potential to improve business value, collaboration and productivity through the disciplined application of agile methods. Rowan is highly active in the Agile community internationally and has spoken at several conferences in Europe and North America including the London Scrum Gathering in 2007. In Australia, Rowan founded a successful Agile special interest group supported by the Australian Computer Society and helped to initiate Scrum User Groups in Sydney and Brisbane. Rowan holds a Bachelor of Information Technology.
What others are saying about courses from Scrum WithStyle
“A great course. Excellent facilitation & presentation.”
- Project Manager, Workcover NSW
“Very insightful and enjoyable.”
- Analyst/Programmer, Agile Development Team, University of Sydney
"I thoroughly enjoyed the course and thanks for facilitating it in such an agile and participative
way."
- Portfolio Manager at a large local council
"Thank you again for the trainings. I am now more confident running the Scrum projects at work."
- Project Manager, RedHat Asia Pacific
"The course was very useful and has definitely helped me."
- Project Manager, Precision Admin/SunSuper
"Thank you very much for the opportunity to attend your training course. I throughly enjoyed it."
- Solutions Architect, Cordelta
“Myself and the 5 PO’s came away with some really useful methods for writing better stories. I’ll
keep an eye out for more of your courses.”
- Producer, The Creative Assembly
“Rowan did a great job and I think everyone concerned learned a great deal and had a good time
in the process. I definitely recommend getting an expert to come and help get things established if
you‚ are considering adopting an agile development approach.”
- Business Intelligence Project Manager, University of New England
Registration
Please select the "Register Now" button on the right to register online.
Pre-reading
As the Scrum Alliance website says, “Students are expected to attend the CSM course with a working knowledge of Scrum. This knowledge can be obtained by reading books, articles, and web info about Scrum.
Required Reading
At minimum, all participants must be familiar with the following material.
Recommended Reading
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love
by Roman Pichler, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010.
(20 ratings)
Mon Aug 11 - 14, 2025
8:30 AM AEST