Become Certified Scrum Product Owner

Overview

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

How to be an effective Product Owner
Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
Agile Release planning and Tracking
Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified Product Owner, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster and Product Owner material and information is available.

Audience

Applicable to Product, Project and Program Managers and anyone interested in how to effectively manage and launch Agile products.

Prerequisites

This class is for people who already understand the Scrum basics and are looking to extend their knowledge. A brief refresher will be available at the start of the training although prior knowledge of the Scrum framework is preferred either through attending a Certified ScrumMaster class, hands-on application of Scrum or at a minimum reading http://www.scrumprimer.com.

Scrum 101 refresher

Scrum cycle, roles, planning cycle

Iteration 0

Research inputs
Product Vision
Exercise: Create a one-pager
Customer insights; personals, field studies
Brainstorming and affinity mapping

Gathering requirements - inputs

Exercise: Ideas brainstorm
Stakeholder & user interviews
Rapid scenarios
Scenario exercise

Prioritizing

Kano analysis
Exercise: Release strategy
Relative weighting

Writing requirements

Product backlog building
Exercise: User story writing

Estimating

Story points and Ideal days
Exercise: Planning poker estimation

Tracking

Sprint and release burndown charts

Release Planning

Incremental release plans
Velocity
Timeboxed and Scopeboxed releases
Exercise: Simulated Scrum game


Optional modules:

Reporting
Scaling Scrum
Testing
Agile Design
Budgets and forecasts
Agile contracts

PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.