Certified Scrum Product Owner®

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Once there, check out the section titled, "The unique way this course is instructed", and below, for more regarding what to expect, what you'll do during the workshop, etc.

Outline of Topics Covered + Daily Timing

9 Critical things you’ll learn and the big payoff:

1. Product thinking essentials

Understanding and separating important concepts such as business needs, product opportunities, output, outcome, and business impact.

2. Product Operating Model

A clear definition of a product operating model (POM) and a way to evaluate and improve your organization’s POM. Why it’s increasingly important to both use and speed up your continuous product improvement to work with 21st century products that don’t just release once, but must continuously improve to survive.

3. Organizing your Product Hierarchy

Identifying all the nested and dependent products in your organization and organizing effective product teams around them. Understand the difference between your end products, customer enabling products, employee enabling products, product team enabling products, and partner enabling products.

4. Focus and Prioritization

How to use your organization's mission, vision, and strategy to focus on the right opportunities. How to use Objectives and Key Results (OKR) to clearly communicate your intention and measure success. How to prioritize what features go into the next release, and what stories go into the next sprint.

5. Stories and Story Mapping

How stories and story telling are really used to improve team communication and keep the whole team focused on product success throughout your whole process. How to use story mapping to decompose new feature ideas, or large stories, into small manageable parts.

6. Product Discovery

How to identify and test risks in your product ideas using a variety of different types of experiments.

7. Dual-Track Development

How to involve the whole team in discovery work while keeping delivery work moving strong. How real product teams work effectively in Scrum and other Agile approaches.

8. Release Strategies

How to find effective release strategies that focus on smaller successful releases that maximize value and minimize risk. How to separate releases to earn from releases to learn.

9. Product Leadership Roles and Responsibilities

How to decide the real responsibilities for the product leadership roles your organization might have such as product owner, product manager, group product manager, or head of product. How those responsibilities change depending on the type of product you’re working on, and the kind of team you’re working with.

The big payoff

While what you’ve just read is an ambitious list of concepts and lots of practices that support them, the really big payoff for you as an attendee is deeply understanding and caring about the work you do. The really big payoff for your organization is really understanding how to use product thinking to delight your users, your employees, and see the ROI take care of itself. Everyone wins.

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Expected timing follows - ** time zones can be tricky so please pay attention to the calendar invite we'll send you as it supersedes the timing listed below **:

7 am - 11:30 am (Perth, Australia)

7 pm - 11:30 pm (New York, USA)

It helps tons if you participate with your camera on for all four days. You'll get the most value out of the class if you do, and you'll then be eligible for the certification, too. ;-)

(heads up that you need to attend and participate in the entire workshop to be eligible for certification)

Not just for Product people!

I've been told by very reliable sources that, although this class covers what you need to know to be an effective product owner or manager, it’s not just for those people. It’s what every team member and leadership should understand to work well in contemporary technology development.

• Product Owners and Product Managers
• Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Consultants
• UX People, Researchers, and Designers
• Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts
• Senior Engineers
• Transformation Leaders
• Product and Organizational Leadership