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Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Iain McKenna

Advance your career with high-value product management skills. CSPO® delves into the scrum framework, agile principles, and relentless focus on delivering customer value. Scrum Alliance-certified trainers have exceptional qualifications, including extensive product management experience. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.

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16 hours |

Start May 22, 2024 CUT

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Course details

Location

Online

Schedule Details

Wednesday, May 22 | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CUT

Thursday, May 23 | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CUT

Course

This highly interactive course provides you with a fundamental understanding of Agile and Scrum, as well as the specific skills, behaviors, and mindset necessary to become a successful Certified Scrum Product Owner,^® (CSPO). With this training, you will prioritize backlogs, effectively communicate with stakeholders, and use the Scrum framework to manage expectations and keep all parties informed.

You Will Learn How To

Become a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Follow Agile principles and the Scrum framework
Build and prioritize your value-driven product backlog
Breakdown epics and themes into actionable user stories
Develop positive stakeholder relationships

Important Course Information

Course Preparation:

The Scrum Guide will be emailed to students for pre-course reading.
A Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) leads this course.
In-person, on-time attendance, and full participation is required for the CST to recommend you to the Scrum Alliance for certification.

Exam Information:

There is no Scrum Alliance or Learning Tree exam.

Agenda

Course Outline

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

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

Reviews

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It was good to understand real events (experience) to clarify and content being taught

GRATEFUL..

The CSPO Course taught by Iain McKenna is highly informative and engaging. Iain's expertise and teaching style make complex concepts easy to understand, providing valuable insights into product ownership. Highly recommended!

I completed the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training with Scrum Alliance, and I couldn’t be happier with the experience! Iain McKenna was an amazing trainer, bringing a wealth of knowledge and real-world examples that made the concepts easy to understand. The training was highly interactive, with engaging discussions and practical exercises that kept me involved. I highly recommend Scrum Alliance and Iain McKenna to anyone looking to gain a solid foundation in Scrum.

Amazing workshop

The course was extremely engaging and hands-on. Iain McKenna is not only very knowledgeable and a good teacher, but his experience as a developer, PO and scrum master allows him to back up the theory with a lot of real life examples which facilitate a more in-depth understating of the SCRUM principles. Also, the idea of learning about SCRUM by practicing SCRUM is not only really good for learning but makes the whole process a lot more fun and interactive. In conclusion, this is one of the best courses I've ever taken and I highly recommend it!

Course met my learning objectives. Iain McKenna teaches it in a very interactive and engaging way, with lots of participant involvement coupled with his personal insights gathered over many years of being a practitioner. I also found it valuable to discuss different scenarios relevant to my deployment and gain some practical ideas.

Definitely a good course where you learn so much. Thanks to Iain for being such a great teacher

This was a very insightful CSPO course led by Iain Mckenna who is very approachable and friendly, he is always happy to answer questions and gives good case studies for examples. I would highly recommend it.

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