Certified Scrum Product Owner Training Course
Course Summary
This two-day Product Owner certification course provides everything you need to work effectively with a Scrum team. On completion, participants are registered as Certified Product Owners (CPOs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable materials and information are available exclusively to CPOs.
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.
Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon team and receive a bound copy of the training materials.
Course Description
You will learn the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, how to maximise value for the business, how your role will interact with Agile teams and how the organisation can support the Product Owner. The class is extremely pragmatic, through a combination of theory and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to effectively manage and prioritize product backlogs, plan releases and sprints, track and report progress, quantify value and scale Scrum to program-level efforts.
Product ownership is one of the most difficult and critical roles in Scrum. While the role responsibilities of the product owner can be described simply enough, very little is said about the day-to-day practice for those filling the role. If you’re a new product owner, you’re likely wrestling with competing demands for time and information from your team, and stakeholders. You’re likely working long hours to try to keep up with work that’s different than anything you’ve done before.
The course emphasizes a product team based approach to product ownership. The time and expertise demands of product ownership make it difficult for a single person to meet all the demands. A product owner supported by a product team can more effectively make decisions and perform the necessary work to identify and describe valuable, usable and feasible software.
During the two days participants will learn about:
This course fills in the missing process for those in product ownership. The simple Scrum model doesn’t mandate or describe the routine meetings, workshops, and methods of communication the typical product owner must use to initially understand and plan the development of the product, decompose and plan work for upcoming sprints, and keep visibility high with users and stakeholders. This course will describe a variety of process additions used by successful product owners.
This course is taught by a leading Agile trainer with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 100.
Duration
2 days.
Audience
Primary Audience
People filling the PO role: Business analysts, UX practitioners, product managers, business leaders and others responsible for filling the product owner role in Scrum and Agile processes.
People supporting the product owner: Business analysts, UX practitioners, product managers, business leaders and others who support product development by collaborating with users, business stakeholders, and subject matter experts to make decisions about what the product should be.
Secondary Audience
Product managers, portfolio managers, project managers, business stakeholders and others responsible for budgeting, scoping, and planning software projects seeking to understand a product team centric approach to product ownership
All team members seeking a deeper understanding of how great products are identified, planned, designed, and validated in an agile context
Course Level: Intermediate
Course Prerequisites: Past attendance in an agile development course, certified Scrum Master course, or past experience working within an agile development team is strongly recommended
Prior knowledge of Scrum and Agile methods is required. You should have attended the Certified ScrumMaster class and/or have actively worked on a Scrum team and have a good understanding of the basics. At a minimum attendees should read the Scrum Primer and Scrum Guide found at: http://www.agileleantraining.com/faq/recommended-reading.html
Additional Notes
The course will be taught with a mixture of discussion supported by some slides along with a number of hands-on workshops where participants practice the techniques discussed. Participants will work together to practice techniques described in the course.
Participants will receive a copy of Cagan’s Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love. The book a simple product management-centric process framework, practices, and inspiration for those in the product owner role. Simple quick-reference-style handouts will be used to support techniques learned in class, and serve as take-away reference for using the techniques in their daily work.
About Your Instructors
Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer based in London offering classes in the United Kingdom and Europe. Gabrielle works with clients from diverse industries including banking, telecommunications, and internet.
Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which encompassed more than 200 team projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com), the most widely read introductory guide to Scrum available and became the 12th Certified Scrum Trainer in the world, being personally certified by Ken Schwaber. Gabrielle provides training and coaching in many Agile and Lean methodologies.
Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In the same year, Sutherland provided Kent Beck background information on the creation of Scrum to help him create eXtreme Programming. XP engineering practices then evolved along with SCRUM and the two leading Agile development processes work well together. Scrum and XP are the most widely used Agile processes worldwide and their creators are authors of the Agile Manifesto.
