Certified Scrum Product Owner®

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Introducing Agile Principles

• Defining Agile values and principles
• Contrasting Waterfall and Agile product development philosophies
• Confronting the challenges of adopting Agile
• Creating a cross-functional team

Defining the Scrum Framework

Embracing scrum

• Defining the core Scrum Framework
• Core Scrum team, artifacts and ceremonies

Adapting traditional business process to Scrum

• Applying core Scrum Values
• Leveraging checks and balances

Scrum Ceremonies and Artifacts

Defining the core scrum artifacts

• Creating the Product Backlog
• Implementing the Sprint Backlog
• Defining the Definition of Done
• Developing potentially shippable product increment

The core scrum ceremonies

• Product Backlog
• Sprint Planning meeting
• Daily Scrum
• Demonstrating products in Sprint Reviews
• Participating in the Sprint Retrospective

Defining the Product Owner Role

Becoming accountable for product success

• Holding the product vision and strategy
• Integrating Agile and Waterfall Teams
• Estimating product scope and delivery

Communicating throughout the organization

• Engaging Stakeholders, customers and end users in product development and delivery
• Developing positive and strong working relationships with Scrum teams
• Tracking, managing and communicating through the right Agile metrics

Building your Product Backlog

Creating a product vision

• Leveraging your customers and users
• Distinguishing between product vision and product strategy
• Articulating clear and measurable outcomes
• Validating and revising your product vision through research
• Constructing a cover story or vision box

Building and refining the Product Backlog

• Building the Product Backlog
• Continuously refining and ordering the Product Backlog
• Turning ideas into action
• Applying the DOVE framework

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

• Ranking Product Backlog item priority at the release, product and project level
• Utilizing MoSCoW and other prioritization techniques
• Applying the Pareto principle to release planning
• Identifying high-priority items for sprint planning

Owning the Product Backlog

Developing the Product Backlog

• Evolving product requirements with stakeholder engagement
• Developing products with progressive elaboration
• Decomposing epics, features and stories
• Defining appropriate acceptance criteria

Refining the Product Backlog

• Sizing user stories, features and epics
• Estimating business value through relative measurement
• Continually refining and reordering your Product Backlog

Developing a Product Roadmap

Planning for long-term product success

• Comparing Agile product release strategies
• Adapting to changing requirements
• Focusing on continuous program, product/project improvement

Refining product delivery

• Comparing iterative and incremental delivery
• Releasing products with Minimal Marketable Features
• Facilitating frequent product release

This course has the highest value for practicing ScrumMasters, but can also be useful to ScrumMasters, members of Scrum Development teams, business analysts, product managers, Human Resource (HR) specialists and anyone else who needs to appreciate the role and competencies required of a ScrumMaster. Agile Coaches using approaches other than the Scrum Framework (e.g., XP, Lean) may also find the course valuable. Beyond that, the course is useful to those who may have obtained a Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) qualification from the Scrum Alliance, or other Agile certifications from scrum.org, IC Agile or Scaled Agile.