Professional Scrum Product Owner I

This course aims to deliver knowledge and skills to learners who are involved in the development of products and hold the role of SCRUM Product Owner. A Scrum Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal, creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items, ordering Product Backlog items; and, ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Is a framework that suggests techniques, processes while implementing a project/developing a product. While working on the development of products within projects, there is an important role, that of a Product owner. Product owners have a unique and demanding role in agile teams. A product owner decides what the team will create next in order to deliver more value to the customer. A Scrum Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals. The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal, creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items, ordering Product Backlog items; and, ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

14 hours
14 hours
Greek
6 - 16

code:SCRUM.PSPO

  • Objectives

    Upon completion the participants will:

    • Describe framework, principles, and values that make scrum work
    • Use tools and techniques to be effective in the scrum Product Owner Role
    • Handle multiple stakeholders’ needs,
    • Create a product vision, and apply methods to get to know your customers so that you can choose the right next piece of value to bring to market for them.
    • Adopt the best practices of the SCRUM framework
  • Topics

    PART 1: STRATEGY

    Unit 1: Agile Product Management

    Product vs Project Mindset

    What is Product Management?

    Product Management and SCRUM

    The Product Owner

    Defining a Product

     

    Unit 2: Vision

    Business Modelling

    Product Vision

    Technical Stage

     

    Unit 3: Value

    Value Defined

    Delivering Value

    Value Metrics

    Evidenced Based Management

    Tracking Metrics

    Where your Money goes?

    Negative Value

    Value Neutrality

     

    Unit 4: Validation

    Stakeholder Feedback

    Marketplace feedback

    Pivot or Persevere?

     

    PART 2: SCRUM

    Unit 5: Empiricism

    It’s a complex problem

    Visualizing complexity

    CYNEFIN

    Types of Complexity

    Risk Management

     

    Unit 6:  SCRUM

    The pillars of SCRUM

    SCRUM Roles

    SCRUM Artifacts

    SCRUM Events

    Iterative and Incremental

    Agile Manifesto for Software Development

     

    PART III: TACKTICS

    Unit 7: Product Backlog Management

    What is a requirement

    Product Backlog Ordering

    Defining “DONE”

    Getting to “READY”

    Story Mapping

    Impact Mapping

    Success Criteria

    Specification by Example

     

    Unit 8: Release Management

    Reasons to Release

    Release Strategy

    Estimation and Velocity

    Scaling Products

    Reporting

    Budgeting

    Governance and Compliance

    Kick Off

    Quality

     

    Unit 9: The Professional Product Owner

    Understanding Product Owner Success

    Skills and Traits

    Measuring Success

  • Participants

    This course is appropriate for learners in any industry where teams are working to solve complex problems. The Professional Scrum Product Owner course is for:

    · Professionals interested in starting a career as a Product Owner

    · Product Owners with some experience in the role that are looking to improve their understanding or fix their misconceptions of Scrum and the Product Owner role

    · Scrum Masters wishing to be an effective coach to Product Owners will also find valuable insights in this course

     

  • Other Details

    While this course covers an introduction to the Scrum framework, it’s primarily from the perspective of the Product Owner. Therefore, it’s best if the students come to the course with an understanding of the fundamentals of Scrum, ideally as demonstrated by passing the Scrum Open.