Certified Scrum Product Owner

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Description

This course is full of practical, real world techniques that you can implement immediately at your workplace. You will gain a better understanding of all of the advantages Scrum has to offer in your organization. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Scrum firsthand.

Audience

Technical professionals associated with product specification, design, development, and testing
Product managers and business analysts
Functional managers, operational managers, and directors
Project sponsors
IT managers, directors, vice presidents, CIOs, and CTOs
Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Scrum for product management

Learning Objectives

Properly align your development efforts around building the highest business value features first
Effectively and efficiently incorporate new insights into the product during the project lifecycle Seed a product backlog to quickly establish enough backlog items
Demonstrate how to write user stories to clearly articulate the who, what, and the how
Relatively estimate backlog items to factor in implementation complexity
Quickly assess business value and establish an initial priority for the backlog items in your product backlog
Key meetings in Scrum to verify what is happening, before, during, and after each sprint
Determine a good user story from a bad one and create a better product backlog
Ensure that the right features are being implemented for the right reasons at the right time
Demonstrate how to track development team progress and make more informed prioritization decisions and forecast possible release dates
Gain organizational trust and improve your team's reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery by setting them up for frequent successes
Rapidly respond to changing market conditions and increase customer satisfaction and time-to-market delivery

1. Introduction

Where Do You Stand
Standing Survey
Learning Objectives

2. Scrum's History

Origins of Agile and Scrum
Agile Umbrella
Agile Manifesto
Market Share
Scrum Alliance

3. Scrum Usage

Think and Write
Types of Work
Defined Process Control
Empirical Process Control

4. Values

Scrum Leadership Based on Five Values

5. Scrum Framework

Scrum Process
Agile and Scrum Concepts

6. Roles and Responsibilities

Team
Product Owner
ScrumMaster
Pair Share

7. Scrum Simulation

8. Product Vision

Create a Compelling Vision Statement to Guide Your Team

9. User Roles and Personas

User Roles
Personas

10. Backlog Seeding

Product Backlog
Iceberg

11. User Stories

Documenting Product Backlog Items
Acceptance Criteria

12. Relative Estimation

Complexity of Implementing a Specific Backlog Item
Planning Poker

13. Assessing Business Value

MoSCoW Rules

14. Ceremonies in Scrum

Sprint
Sprint Planning "The What"
Sprint Planning "The How"
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective

15. User Story Writing Workshop

Good vs. Bad User Story
INVEST Criteria for Good User Stories
Best Practices

16. Advanced Prioritization

Priority
Kano Analysis
Financial Models
Advanced Prioritization Techniques
Fire Fighting
Pair Share

17. Tracking Team Progress

Velocity
Burn-Up Charts
Burn-Down Charts
Information Radiators
Scrum Boards
Beat the Clock

18. Additional Ceremonies

Product Road-Mapping
- Company Milestones
- Market Timing
- Technology Architecture
Product Road Map Example
Release Planning
Cadence
Release Plan Example
The Planning Onion
Backlog Grooming
Estimating
Pass that Question

19. Product Box

20. Areas to Watch

Gaining Consensus
Technical Debt
Definition of "Done"
Abnormal Sprints
Scrum "Buts"
Scrum Smells

21. The Scrum Cafï¿½ or Open Space Technologies

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