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Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

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

“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.”

Roman’s Certified Scrum Product Owner training course is also available for onsite delivery.

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training
Event Date City Venue Map
Certified Scrum Product Owner Training (in English)20 Jun 2012London15HatfieldsMap
Certified Scrum Product Owner Training (in English)17 Oct 2012London15HatfieldsMap

Agenda

Scrum Overview

  • The Scrum framework
  • Product increment, feedback, and learning

Understanding the Product Owner Role

  • Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
  • Product owner team and hierarchies
  • Working with customers, users and other stakeholders
  • Dealing with common product owner challenges

Envisioning the Product

  • Identifying customers and users with their needs
  • Sketching the key product features
  • Exploring the business model incl. revenue sources, partners and competitors
  • Using personas, scenarios and the product vision board to create a powerful vision

Working with the Product Backlog

  • The product backlog and its characteristics
  • Describing items as user stories
  • The product backlog grooming steps
  • Prioritising the product backlog and getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
  • Stocking and grooming your own product backlog using story cards, sketches and the product backlog board

Planning the Release

  • 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

Understanding the Product Owner’s Role in the Sprint Meetings

  • Leveraging the sprint planning meeting to help establish a realistic commitment
  • Using the sprint review meeting to gather customer and user feedback
  • Product owner do’s and don’ts

Succeeding with Large and Distributed Scrum Projects

  • Techniques and practices to manage large and distributed Scrum projects including lookahead planning, extending the grooming horizon, product owner hierarchies, and joint sprint meetings

Audience

Anyone who wants to play the product owner role or improve his/her product owner work including product managers, business analysts, requirements engineers, UX designers, and project managers.

Prerequisites

Participants are encouraged to read the following books prior to the training:

 


About Your Trainer — Roman Pichler

Roman is an expert on agile product management with an outstanding track record in teaching and coaching product owners. He is the author of Agile Product Management with Scrum, the product owner's guide to creating successful products. As the leading contributor to Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Product Owner curriculum, Roman knows exactly what product owners need.

Roman has ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum rollouts in several companies. Roman has worked with product owners and agile product managers for a decade, and he has seven years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners. Roman is a regular speaker at international conferences. He speaks English and German.

For attendee feedback, please view the testimonials. Please contact us at via email at training@romanpichler.com or call us at +44 (0) 7949 203772 to discuss how you can benefit from the training.