Certified Scrum Product Owner Course

Overview

2 days

There’s a revolution sweeping the product development world: agile methods. Some Product Managers (sometimes called the Business Owner of the system, for internal systems) and development teams have been applying these practices for years, and they are now spreading worldwide, from London to Los Angeles.

In Scrum, the most popular agile method, a key role is Product Owner. This is a product management role with specific responsibilities in Scrum: responsible for the ROI, release date, release content, and choice of goals each Sprint. In this practical, information-and-tips-packed seminar you will learn the key ideas and practices of agile development, aimed at Product Managers and the Scrum Product Owner.

Methods of Education

Discussion, presentation, Q&A, workshop exercises

Audience

Those involved in product management

Level

Introductory-Intermediate

Prerequisites

Unless otherwise arranged, every participant is required to have read the following chapters from Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Scrum (Larman & Vodde), before the course:

• Chapter 2: Systems Thinking
• Chapter 4: Queuing Theory
• Chapter 7: Feature Teams
• Chapter 8: Teams
• Chapter 12: Scrum Primer

Participants must also read, before the course:

• The Scrum Guide
• Do Scrum Better
• Scrum Primer or from Chapter 12 of Scaling Lean & Agile Development
• Feature Teams or from Chapter 7 of Scaling Lean & Agile Development
• ScrumBut
• Kicking ScrumBut

Objectives

• Act as an effective Product Owner in Scrum
• Know and participate in the Scrum events
• Create and evolve the Product Backlog and Release Burndown chart
• Prioritize the Product Backlog

Outline

• Why is the Product Manager role so central to Scrum and what will you do that’s new?
• Estimation, Release Planning and Scheduling Scrum Projects
• What is a Product Backlog? How to create and manage it?
• Prioritizing the Product Backlog with attribute classes and weights
• Defining and comparing "value" with Impact Estimation Tables
• Looking outward to your market: The skillful Product Manager
• Kano model for customer satisfaction
• Kano model in Product Backlog categorization
• Ideation for Innovation: From TRIZ to Agile Innovation Games
• What do you pick for the next Sprint?
• How do you participate in planning a Sprint?
• How do you do evolutionary requirements?
• Agile and Iterative Methods
• Timeboxing
• The Engaged Product Manager/Business Owner on Agile Projects
• Scrum
• Fixed-Price, Fixed Time, Fixed Scope: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too?
• Sprint definition of done
• Your role in the Sprint Review
• Helping your team
• Product Backlog grooming or refinement
• Adaptive Sprint Planning
• Tracking Progress in Scrum
• Your Role in Defining Automated Acceptance Tests
• Further education resources for Product Managers
• Frequently Asked Questions

Maximum Participants

35

Environment - Room, Tools, Texts

Read this: Course Environment - Workshop Style1

Text and Notes

• There is a course PDF for the presentations. We may decide to give the students a file copy to view on a laptop or a paper copy, depending on situation.