Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About the Course

The Product Owner role is critical to maximising Return on Investment from agile projects and is one of the most challenging and rewarding agile roles. Many Product Owners come from business areas of the organisation and have limited familiarity with elements of software development, project management and agile methods that are critical to success in the Product Owner role. 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.

Audience

This course is most suitable for Product Owners and staff assisting with requirements (e.g. Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts), solution architecture (e.g. Solution Architects and Tech Leads), planning and coaching (e.g. ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches).

Course Outline

Part A: Scrum Framework

"As a Product Owner, I want to understand the Scrum framework."

• Agility
• Introducing Scrum
• Timeboxing
• The Empirical Journey
• Team and ScrumMaster
• Product Owner Role
• Defining "Done"
• Undone Work Debt

Part B: Activities and Interaction

"As a Product Owner, I want to known when and how I should interact with other participants."

• Product Backlog
• Constraint Stories
• Sprint Planning
• Sprinting
• Sprint Review
• Scrum Values

Part C: Shaping the Product

"As a Product Owner, I want to shape my product in an agile way."

• Envisioning
• User Roles
• User Stories
• Story Mapping
• Prioritisation

Part D: Release Management

"As a Product Owner, I want to manage releases using agile techniques."

• Release Planning
• Grooming the Product Backlog
• Agile Release Management
• Next Steps

About the Facilitators

This Certified ScrumMaster course will be jointly led by Simon Bennett and Rowan Bunning.

Simon Bennett has been in the Agile & Lean space for over a decade. Most recently as the Head of Lean Agile & Systems Thinking for EMC Consulting, Simon has been all of practitioner, coach & trainer serving additionally as the Product Owner for the popular TFS process template "Scrum for Team System", "Task Board for Team System" and the Microsoft Surface Planning Poker application.

Rowan Bunning is a pioneer of Scrum in Australia. He has a strong background in using Scrum with R&D-intensive product development and introducing it into organisations ranging from start-ups to global enterprises.  With a technical background in web development, XML and Smalltalk, Rowan became interested in eXtreme Programming in 2001 and Scrum in 2003. He went on to become Australia's first Certified ScrumMaster and first Certified Scrum Practitioner. Having worked as an agile coach for one of Europe's leading Scrum consultancies, Rowan has built extensive experience leading, coaching, and training organisations in Scrum across Australasia.

Scrum WithStyle offers in-house training, agile coaching and consulting throughout Australia and New Zealand.

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Registration

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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. Pre-reading material will provided approximately one week prior to the course.

Recommended Reading

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love

by Roman Pichler, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010.