Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Scrum Fundamentals

• Understand Agile Principles
• Agile values and principles accurately
• Differences between Waterfall and Agile product development
• Challenges of Agile
• Forming cross-functional teams
• Scrum Framework

Scrum Functions & Duties

• Roles of Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and team members in a Scrum team
• Traditional project management methods
• Discover why Scrum doesn't have a project manager or Agile product manager

Refine Product Planning

• Scope of the Product planning
• Role of a product vision for Scrum teams
• Learn about essential product qualities and shaping the vision
• See how the product vision links to the product roadmap

Prioritizing and estimating product backlogs

• Scrum's estimation levels
• Prioritize accuracy over precision
• Avoid pressuring low estimates
• Distinguish between estimating and committing

Prioritizing

• Learn why prioritizing the backlog matters
• Choose the right voices for input
• Master backlog prioritization techniques
• Set team flexibility limits

Developing the Product Backlog

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

Understanding of Sprints

• Understand the Product Owner's Scrum role
• Master Product Owner-team collaboration
• Learn sprint timeboxing rationale
• Grasp sustainable pace concept
• Emphasize team commitment in Scrum

Release Management

• Clear goals and initiating release planning
• Principles of adaptive, iterative, and collaborative planning
• Concept of technical debt
• Velocity in your development process
• Creation and interpretation of release burndown charts