Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Daily Live Session Schedule:

• 09:00-12:30 (Break ~10:45)
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-17:00 (Break ~15:15)

Certified Scrum Product Owner®

Developers can now build faster than most Product Backlogs can keep up. When AI speeds up delivery, the bottleneck moves upstream to the Product Owner: understanding the customer, choosing what matters, and turning ideas into clear Product Backlog items the team can act on. Speed without judgment just produces bad backlog items faster.

This course teaches both. You will learn the Product Owner accountability in Scrum and practice it through a chain of seven hands-on AI exercises. Each exercise builds on the last, so by the end of day two your team has taken a product from a rough idea to a prioritized roadmap and a set of user stories ready for refinement.

Every exercise follows the same pattern. AI produces a fast first draft. Your team moves it onto sticky notes and chart paper, challenges it, and improves it using what you know about real customers and real organizations. You leave knowing where AI saves you hours and where you can't hand off judgment.

The AI exercise chain

1. Product Definition. Shape a product idea into a title, description, and core features.
2. Elevator Statement. Sharpen who the product is for and why it beats the alternatives.
3. Cast of Characters. Identify the primary, secondary, and tertiary users.
4. Primary User Role Card. Build a detailed picture of the user who matters most, then test whether it describes someone you have actually met.
5. Strategic Prioritization. Order competing team and stakeholder objectives against real team capacity.
6. One Page Challenge. Scope the top roadmap item, including what is deliberately out of scope.
7. Story Writing. Generate and split user stories, then rewrite the acceptance criteria with your own domain expertise.

Alongside the AI work, you will practice stakeholder mapping, the Product Vision-to-Sprint Goal hierarchy, customer discovery, assumption validation, story mapping, and release forecasting.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the Product Owner accountability and how it connects to the Scrum Team, stakeholders, and each Scrum event
• Connect a product vision to a Product Goal and Sprint Goals a team can rally around
• Identify your users and stakeholders and decide how to engage each one
• Order the Product Backlog by value, risk, and capacity, and defend that order to stakeholders
• Turn large ideas into small, testable Product Backlog items with clear acceptance criteria
• Choose low-cost ways to validate assumptions before investing in them
• Forecast fixed-scope and fixed-date releases using velocity ranges instead of single-point estimates
• Use AI to draft product artifacts faster while applying the critical review that keeps quality high

Note: This workshop qualifies for the 14 PDU's with the PMI.