Scrum for Product Owners

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: Pre-readings

Participants must read (available online), before the course:

The Scrum Guide
Scrum Primer
Feature Teams pp 150-156 only, or the equivalent section in Feature Teams in Scaling Lean & Agile Development
Kicking ScrumBut

Unless otherwise arranged, every participant is also required to have read the following chapters from Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum (Larman & Vodde), before the course:

Chapter 3: Product Management
Chapter 8: Requirements & PBIs

...And the following chapters from Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Scrum (Larman & Vodde), before the course:

Chapter 2: Systems Thinking

NOTE! Your company may have an online Safari account that you can use to read the book chapters online free. Please ask your colleagues if you have a Safari account.

Outline

Why is the Product Owner role so central to Scrum and what will you do that’s new?
Agile Values
Scrum Background
Lean Thinking
Reducing Waste in Product Management
Iterative and Evolutionary Development
Definition of Done
Release Sprint
Adaptive Planning
Initial Product Backlog Creation
Sprint Review
Ideation for Innovation
Innovation Games and Game Storming
Results-driven versus Feature-driven
Results-driven Scrum
Impact Mapping for Results
Measurement Points in Impact Mapping
Story Mapping
Product Backlog Prioritization with Relative Points
Product Backlog Prioritization with Attribute Classes
Estimation, Release Planning and Scheduling
Estimating with Monte Carlo Simulation
Stories and the 3Cs
Specification by Example
Business Benefits
Changes for the Product Owner
Kano Model
Fixed-Price, Fixed Time, Fixed Scope: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too?
Product Backlog grooming or refinement
Tracking Progress in Scrum
Further education resources for Product Managers

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.