Certified Scrum Product Owner Training, 10 and 11 March 2015

Become a Certified Scrum Product Owner, and learn what it takes to work effectively as a product owner from a leading expert. This interactive training course teaches practical techniques to describe and validate your product using instructions and plenty of hands-on exercises.

Roman's Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap course is an excellent way to extend your Product Owner knowledge, if you book both courses at the same time, you will receive a discount of 25% on the standard fee for the Agile Product Strategy and Roadmap course. Please contact training@romanpichler.com for further details.

“Roman’s deep knowledge and experience of Scrum and agile development is conveyed with great enthusiasm on his tightly run product owner training. He’s a great coach with real-life examples for pretty much every scenario, and an obvious enthusiasm for user-led development that is inspirational,” says James Murphy, Director of Publishing at RICS. Jennifer Shorten, product owner at Wiley, adds: “I apply what I learned in the class every day.”

Agenda

Scrum and Innovation

Traditional product management approaches vs. Scrum
The product lifecycle and Scrum

The Product Owner Role

Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
Working with customers, users and other stakeholders
Scaling the product owner role: Product owner team and hierarchies; feature vs. component teams


The User Experience and the Product Features

Describing target users with their needs using personas
Capturing the user experience with user interface sketches, scenarios, and storyboards
Describing the product functionality with user stories

The Product Backlog

Understanding the product backlog including its DEEP characteristics
Employing the right product backlog grooming steps
Getting the high-priority stories ready
Exploring the Product Canvas as a backlog alternative


Sprint Meetings

Choosing the right sprint goal
Validating the product in the sprint review meeting and understanding the project progress
Going beyond product demos: additional research and validation techniques

Release Planning

Understanding the Scrum release planning techniques
Estimating product backlog items and determining velocity
Using the release burndown chart to track and forecast the project progress

Audience

Product owners, product managers, business analysts, requirements engineers, UX designers, and project managers. Attendees should have a working knowledge of Scrum.

Prerequisites

Reading the following resources will help participants prepare for the training:

• Roman Picher. Agile Product Management with Scrum. 2010.
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide.