COURSE 4945 | 2-DAY SESSION
Certified Scrum Product Owner Workshop

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An in-depth two day immersion into the world of Agile Product Management.

This Scrum training course is full of practical, real world techniques that can be implemented immediately at your workplace. This course will allow your organization to enjoy the many advantages Scrum has to offer. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Scrum firsthand.

You Will Learn:

• Properly align your development efforts around building the highest business value features first
• Ensure that the right features are being implemented for the right reasons at the right time
• Effectively and efficiently incorporate new insights into the product during the project lifecycle
• Rapidly respond to changing market conditions
• Increase customer satisfaction and time-to-market delivery
• Gain organizational trust and improve your team's reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery by setting them up for frequent successes
• Achieve greater flexibility and bring value to your organization by adding another tool to your toolbox

Arguably the most challenging role on the Scrum team is that of the product owner (PO). The PO is responsible for the product's return on investment while providing direction and priority on the product's features. In order to be effective in the role of the PO, a new skill set is necessary to teach the tools of the trade for agile product management.

In this Scrum training course you will learn how to play Innovation Games™ to understand the desires of your customers for your product. Determines how to prioritize features based on both subjective and objective (defensible) strategies. And learn how to properly interact and work with your team, ScrumMaster, and stakeholders within the Scrum framework.

Special edition: as product owners we should all strive to build innovative products for our customers. One shining example of such a product is Apple's iPad. All attendees of this course will receive an iPad 2 and several of the course exercises have been designed to take advantage of it.

20 immediate benefits of attending this class:

1. Explain Scrum's history, so that you can better appreciate Scrum.
2. List situations where using Scrum is appropriate, so that you can better understand why Scrum will benefit my organization.
3. Explain the importance of having defined values, so that you can understand a fundamental tenant behind agile leadership.
4. Describe the Scrum framework, so that you can clearly comprehend the Scrum process.
5. Describe the roles and responsibilities on a Scrum team, so that you can understand who needs to do what.
6. Experience Scrum, so that you know what it feels like when you start doing it for real.
7. Demonstrate how to create a product vision statement, so that you can establish a guiding light for the product, with the help of your stakeholders.
8. Demonstrate how to establish user roles and personas, so that you can ensure that you don't miss an important stakeholder's business need.
9. Explain how to seed a product backlog, so that you can quickly establish enough backlog items so that the development team can start sprinting.
10. Demonstrate how to write user stories, so that you can clearly articulate the who, what, and the how come behind each backlog item.
11. List how the development team will relatively estimate backlog items, so that you can factor-in implementation complexity, when you assess the overall priority of a backlog item.
12. Demonstrate how to quickly assess business value, so that you can establish an initial priority for the backlog items in your product backlog.
13. List and explain the key meetings in Scrum, so that you know what is happening, before, during, and after each sprint.
14. Explain how to tell a good user story from a bad one, so that you can create a better product backlog.
15. List several ways to prioritize your product backlog, so that you can determine what is the best approach for the situation at hand.
16. Demonstrate how to track development team progress, so that you can make more informed prioritization decisions and forecast possible release dates.
17. List and explain the additional meetings recommended for Scrum, so that you can improve the overall efficiency of the Scrum process.
18. List areas where we might get into trouble, so that you know what to look out for as your organization implements Scrum.
19. An open forum to discuss challenging questions about Scrum, so that you can utilize the collective intelligence of the course participants to brainstorm creative ways to solve problems.
20. Did we mention that you get a free iPad 2?