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Certified Scrum Product Owner - Geoff Watts : This twoâ??day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner.
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Potential or current Product Owners and Project managers or Scrum teams lacking an effective Product Owner
Class Size Limit: 20 (Minimum 6)
Course Overview
This two–day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about
being an effective product owner. At the end of the class, you will understand
how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction.
You will understand the product owner role with its authority and
responsibility, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles. You will be able
to create a product vision, stock and groom the product backlog, prioritise the
backlog, and systematically refine requirements. You will also be able to create
a realistic release and track the project progress and understand how you can
effectively collaborate with the ScrumMaster and team in the sprint
meetings.
Questions and conversations are encouraged throughout and there is also a
dedicated Q&A session to explore the concerns and practical queries.
As Certified Scrum Trainers we are approved by the Scrum Alliance and have
had experience of Scrum implementations small, medium and large, coming up
against and resolving many barriers to Scrum along the way.
Agenda
Introduction
Agile values and Scrum origins
Scrum flow
Empirical management
Definition of done
Scrum Roles
Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and
collaboration
Product owner team and hierarchies
Desirable qualities of the product owner
A day in the life of the product owner
Common product owner mistakes
Visioning and The Product Vision
The product vision
Benefits of the product vision
The vision in action
Desirable qualities
The minimal marketable product
Simplicity and Ockham’s Razor
The vision and the product roadmap
Techniques for creating a powerful vision
The Product Backlog
Product discovery and requirements in Scrum
Product backlog characteristics
Product backlog structure and form
Grooming the product backlog
Identifying and describing items: user stories on the product backlog
Prioritising the product backlog
Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
Progressively decomposing and refining items
Collaborative grooming workshops
Non–functional requirements on the product backlog
Release Management
The project levers and the cone of uncertainty
Software quality
Timeboxed releases
Early and frequent releases
Quarterly cycles
Estimating product backlog items with story points and planning poker
Choosing the right sprint length
Determining velocity
Working with the release burndown chart and bar
Creating the release plan
Tracking and reporting the project progress
Sprints
Sprint characteristics
Formulating powerful sprint goals
Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)
Brook’s Law
Organic growth and Conway’s Law
Team set–up
Multi–team planning and coordination
Shared norms and assets
Dispersed teams
Distributed Scrum project tips
Transitions (optional)
Becoming a great product owner
Developing great product owners
Making Scrum product ownership stick
Cost:
£995 + VAT per attendee.