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Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Taught by: Rowan Bunning

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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17 - 18 November, 2009 |

0 hrs/day

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Location

In-Person

Room 7, Level 1, Darlington Centre Entry off City Road University of Sydney, NSW 2006, AU

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About the Course

The Product Owner role is critical to maximising Return on Investment from Scrum projects and is perhaps the most challenging role to fulfill. Many Product Owners come from business areas of the organisation and have limited familiarity with software development and agile methods. For these reasons, it is vitally important that Product Owners gain a solid understanding of their role and responsibilities as well as the knowledge, skills and tools to work effectively with Scrum teams.

About the Trainer

Rowan Bunning is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a pioneer of Scrum in Australasia. With a background in extreme programming, object oriented development and scrum, Rowan became Australia’s first Certified ScrumMaster and first Certified Scrum Practitioner. He has built extensive experience leading, coaching, and training organisations in Scrum across Australasia and Europe, including European scrum leader ‘EMC Conchango’. As a Certified Scrum Trainer he has a fantastic track record for running comprehensive and high value scrum courses. His courses include the two day Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses with associated accreditations with the Scrum Alliance. He also offers one day courses on Effective User Stories and Agile Estimating and Planning as licensed from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software – author of the most popular books on these topics.

Through his company Software WithStyle, Rowan delivers consulting and training helping a diverse range of organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand to succeed with Agile. Frustrated with the substantial waste, poor delivery track-record and lack of trust that he sees on many IT projects, Rowan is passionate about the enormous potential to improve business value, collaboration and productivity through the disciplined application of agile methods. Rowan is highly active in the Agile community internationally and has spoken at several conferences in Europe and North America including the London Scrum Gathering in 2007. In Australia, Rowan founded a successful Agile special interest group supported by the Australian Computer Society and helped to initiate Scrum User Groups in Sydney and Brisbane. Rowan holds a Bachelor of Information Technology.

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Preparation

The following is mandatory pre-reading for all course participants.

The Scrum Guide (PDF download from the Scrum Alliance website).

The following books are highly recommended and reading them prior to the course will help you to get more out of it.

Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber
Microsoft Press, 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0735619937

Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn
Prentice Hall PTR, 2005
ISBN-13: 978-0131479418

Agenda

The Scrum Framework - Positioning Scrum, Activities, Roles, Artifacts
Agile Thinking - Agile Values, 'All-at-once' Development, Timeboxing, Empirical Process Control
The Product Owner Role
Visioning
Agile Requirements Management - Role Modelling, User Stories, Non-functional Requirements
Product Backlog Management - Grooming the Product Backlog, Splitting Stories
Prioritisation - Value Creation, Prioritisation Techniques
Agile Planning - Release Planning, Sprint Planning
Product Review - "Done" and "Undone", Acceptance Testing, Sprint Review
Product Management - Stakeholder Management, Release Management, Plans, Status, Indicators

Who should attend

Current and prospective Product Owners, Business Analysts and ScrumMasters involved in coaching Product Owners. Also stakeholders and business managers involved in lobbying or supporting Product Owners.

Reviews

4.65 out of 5.0 stars

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Enjoyed the interactivity and learning methods. I wanted to understand how the method could better suits my situation.

I enjoyed the way Rowan made the training materials accessible and engaging with a variety of learning methods. I thought the scrum management method was taught very well. I wanted the chance for practical solutions for my particular unique circumstances (team and product) that didn't seem to fit in with many of the examples.

This the second course I've attended run by Rowan. He's a great teacher, taking the time to explain concepts, give real-world examples. A good balance of theory and practice makes the learning fun and more deeply engaging.

Best takeaways are the interactive sessions and the tricks to prioritize tasks and requests! Lots of real world examples are exciting too

Rowan is an excellent facilitator and instructor. He has deep expertise, broad experience, and a thoughtful and engaging approach. I highly recommend the CSPO course.

Course was full of relevant and practical information with guidance on where else to go to get a deeper understanding. A huge shout out to Rowan for his immense amount of knowledge, how he made the material engaging and easy to understand, and for keeping the energy up for 2 days across Zoom.

Provided me with loads of techniques and tactics to try, and also put in perspective what attributes (of the PO) and team context/constraints lead to a successful Product Owner and Product Team.

The Product Owner Course was incredibly helpful for me. I learned all the key skills needed to be a successful Product Owner. The course covered everything from strategies to hands-on practice, giving me confidence in managing products and working with stakeholders.

The first online training I do, with the best templates applicable to real life scenarios.

Enjoyable course - well led. - Knowledgeable and passionate instructor, good pace to cover the material and nice mix of theory and interactive exercises.

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