Certified Scrum Product Owner®

What is a Product Owner?

A good Product Owner drives delivery of value to customers and users and is therefore plays a critical role in a Scrum team.

Good product ownership starts with a strong vision for the product, understanding how the product provides value to customers and users and how to maximize the value over time through iterative and incremental releases of the product.  The Product Owner sets measurable goals for the product and is able to articulate the vision and goals to all stakeholders and the development team, helping the team to deliver the product in the most effective way.

In this two day workshop, you will learn how the Product Owner role fits into the Scrum team in order to drive maximum product value over time.

Through a series of activities, including game play, role play, interactive exercises, case studies and in depth group discussions, you will experience what it's like to be a Product Owner on a Scrum team.

The Training Approach

The Certified Scrum Product Owner training course uses Scrum to teach Scrum and provides a stimulating, experiential learning experience through the use of game play, hands on practical exercises, real life case studies and in depth discussions of the various parts of the Scrum framework and how the parts fit together.  On completing the course, candidates designated as a Certified Scrum Product Owner by the Scrum Alliance.  Candidates will then also become members of the Scrum Alliance and can work towards achieving the higher level Certified Scrum Professional designation.

Meet Your Trainer

Iain has not only trained many people in Scrum but has extensive experience “from the trenches” in actually using Scrum with a large variety of organisations including media and telecoms, finance, education, health care, retail, leisure and gaming.

Iain also has significant experience of scaling Scrum in organisations with over 500 software development staff and of using Scrum in non-software environments including health care and education.

Top 3 reasons for taking a course with Iain:

• Practical guidance from first-hand experience. Over a decade implementing Scrum in dozens of organisations means that Iain’s guidance is grounded in real world challenges and is highly practical. He speaks from first-hand experience.
• Insightful and inspiring. As past course participants testify, you can expect to take away many deep insights into the nature of Scrum and its potential to transform your organisation and your work life for the better. Stories of what others have achieved with Scrum are likely to inspire you to be a game changer yourself.
• Post-course follow-up. Iain believes that your training course is the start of a lifelong journey of continuous improvement and he is available to assist you on that journey in any way possible, from help and advice, post-training coaching and extended education courses.  Iain will always do whatever he can to help you achieve success.

What others say about Iain’s training

“Great! I got exactly what I wanted out of it.  It’s been a great 2 days with a fantastic trainer.  I’d do another course with Iain if given the chance”  JM

“I couldn’t imagine a better training in Scrum that Iain did in Bratislava this summer.  His explanations of Scrum and general agile practices were excellent and he could back them up with an amazing list of real-world experiences.  He could answer any question with a story of how it can go wrong and how to do it right” Adam Sandor

“We had been exposed to Scrum practices in our company so did not expect to take much from the course.  The content and training approach was very effective.  The hands on class assignments were relevant and insightful.  During the course, the practices we used and what actually should be done became clear.  McKenna’s excellent grasp of Scrum concepts was rubbing off on us.  What really amazed me was McKenna’s knowledge and experience using Scrum.  His knowledge of software practices and project management also was a great insight for us.  Grateful Student”  Vilva Ponnasamy

“Thank you very much for your training which was way above what I was expecting; dynamic, knowledgeable and practical!”  Guillam Durand

This Learn by doing style 2 day interactive training for Certified Scrum Product Owner is brought to you by Project Success, UK. 

Before attending this course, you are strongly urged to read The Scrum Guide which can be downloaded in PDF format..