Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
This course explores the critical role of the product owner in successful product delivery, and gives you the tools to become a better product owner. It’s for product owners, aspiring product owners, and anyone who works with project teams and has responsibility for results.
You’ll be challenged to put theory into practice through a variety of exercises and simulations, and to think through your own product ideas for yourself. As well as learning a range of techniques you’ll also gain a deeper understanding of Scrum and agile principles – not just the how but the why. It’s a potent foundation for working with Scrum and agile in your own organisation.
As Agile ways of working are increasingly adopted by organisations seeking to innovate faster and deliver better products, the majority are using Scrum as their framework. Scrum is a deceptively simple framework, but it is highly adaptive and has a significant impact on traditional organisational models. So if you’re to work successfully with it as a product owner, your knowledge needs to go deeper.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
After successfully completing the course, you will be designated as Certified Scrum Product Owner. This Scrum Alliance certification includes a two-year membership of the Scrum Alliance.
You’ll have learned what a product owner is and how they function within the Scrum framework, and have gained tools and techniques to become a better product owner. You will know how to validate assumptions about a product idea, take the idea forward, understand your customers and manage stakeholders, and work with a product backlog.
Course Content
Agile Principles and Scrum Overview
• Key agile product development principles
• Introduction to Scrum
Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
• Scrum Master, Team and Product Owner responsibilities
• Values and behaviours
Sprints
• Cross functional team working in a Sprint
• Effective product feedback
Vision
• Methods for creating a Vision for your product
Planning a Product
• Identifying where to start, where is the highest value
• Using proto-personas and empathy maps
• Requirements v’s assumptions, outcomes and impacts
• Identifying and capturing your first product slice using story boards, scenarios or process flows
Kicking off a Release
• Using user stories to stock your backlog
• Release planning approaches
• Communicating a release
Estimation
• Comparative estimation techniques
• Beyond Planning Poker
• Forecasting and reporting
Backlog refinement
• Refinement of Product Slices
• Approaches to backlog refinement
Prioritisation
• More prioritisation techniques for your product backlog
Exams and certifications
Following successful completion of this course, participants will be designated as Certified Scrum Product Owners. This Scrum Alliance certification includes a two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance.