Certified Scrum Product Owner
COURSE OUTLINE:
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